Download or read book Last Airlift written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and published by Pajama Press Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the story of Tuyet Son Thi Ahn, a girl from a Saigon orphanage who is airlifted out of Saigon in spring of 1975, and finally adopted by a Canadian family.
Download or read book What Became of the Airlift Orphans written by Karen Walker Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Airlift Orphan written by Marjory Kimani and published by Nsemia Incorporated. This book was released on 2021 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So what inspired me to write The Airlift Orphan? The seed from which this book germinated was the Tom Mboya-John F. Kennedy airlifts which took place in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Dozens of young bright students from Kenya were given a chance to further their education in the United States of America. A Kenyan visionary, politician, and trade unionist, Tom Joseph Mboya, had seen that an independent Kenya would need its own well-educated citizens to steer the new nation as most of the colonial government workers were leaving. Kendi, the chief persona in the story, is the daughter of a man who left his pregnant lover behind and failed to come back. The travails that Kendi and her mother go through at the hands of a ruthless society form the real gist of this story. The story is entirely fictional but is primarily based on a historical event that actually took place. Marjory Kimani
Download or read book The United States Air Force and Humanitarian Airlift Operations 1947 1994 written by Daniel Lee Haulman and published by Air Force History & Museums Program. This book was released on 1998 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beretter om det amerikanske flyvevåben og dets nødhjælpsflyvninger i perioden 1947-1994.
Download or read book Air Force Chaplains Air Force chaplains 1947 1960 written by United States. Air Force. Office of the Chief of Chaplains and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Chaplains written by United States. Air Force. Office of the Chief of Chaplains and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Vietnam Cambodia Emergency 1975 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sky of Bombs Sky of Stars written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful omnibus edition of the award-winning biographies Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way Tuyet remembers little about life before the Saigon orphanage, before polio left her limping and in constant pain, before the war made it too dangerous to stand under the bomb-filled Vietnam sky. Unable to play with the other children and knowing that at eight she is too old be adopted, she helps care for the babies in the orphanage. So when frantic aid-workers load a van full of babies and take Tuyet as well, she thinks that's why she is there: as a carer. She can't guess that, with the capital about to fall to the North Vietnamese, she is being evacuated on the last airplane full of at-risk children bound for new adoptive homes in the west. Before she knows what is happening, Tuyet is whisked into life with the Morris family: Mom, Dad, their biological daughter Beth, and their adopted children Lara and Aaron. It takes some time to really understand that she isn't there to help care for baby Aaron: she is there to be their daughter. She learns that the bright sparks in the sky are stars, not bombs, that flames on a birthday cake are nothing to fear, and that her only jobs are to play and to be loved. But a bigger test stands before Tuyet: corrective surgery for her twisted ankle, and a gruelling physiotherapy regimen. Unable to speak English yet and terrified that the procedure will fail, Tuyet must draw on every ounce of courage and focus on her dream of running and kicking a ball in a pair of matching shoes. Sky of Bombs, Sky of Stars: A Vietnamese War Orphan Finds Home is an omnibus edition of the award-winning Last Airlift: A Vietnamese Orphan's Rescue from War and One Step at a Time: A Vietnamese Child Finds Her Way. Retold by acclaimed children's author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, Tuyet's dramatic true story is based on personal interviews and enhanced with archival photos.
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Download or read book Far Away in the Sky written by David L. Koren and published by David L Koren. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some were paid. Some felt compelled by a duty to God. Some volunteered. Some died doing it. All flew on rickety old aircraft into a nighttime, wartime patch of African forest called Biafra. Far Away in the Sky gives the personal account of one of them, a young American volunteer who joined the largest international humanitarian relief airlift ever attempted. In 1968 millions of people, mostly children, were starving due to a military blockade of Biafra, the former Eastern Region of Nigeria. The World Council of Churches and Caritas International mounted a relief airlift. Flying at night to avoid Nigerian Migs, without radar or any modern navigational aids, landing amid bombs on a stretch of road in the rain forest, the old planes delivered thousands of tons of food and medicines. UNICEF recruited six former United States Peace Corps Volunteers, including the author, to help unload the planes. The former volunteers had served in Nigeria and were familiar with the area and the people. To David Koren the people of Biafra, his former students and fellow teachers, constituted his motive for joining the airlift. More than just a memoir of events, Far Away in the Sky promotes a discussion of international aid, of the balance between the grace of giving and the dignity of receiving aid, and the policies of governments toward intervention or non-intervention in humanitarian disasters. How do the lessons of Biafra apply to modern eruptions like Rwanda, Darfur, Libya, Syria and those yet to come? .
Download or read book Saving the Vietnamese Orphans written by Marjorie Haun and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Babylift was one of the largest humanitarian efforts of the 20th Century. As American troops were pulled out of Vietnam, the vulnerable bui doi orphans were left exposed to the dangers presented by the North Vietnamese invasion. These children, many of whom were of mixed race, had nowhere to go and their caretakers in the orphanages were overwhelmed with the tasks of both caring for small children and defending them from the perils of war. President Gerald Ford made a decision to airlift these innocent children out of Southeast Asia. Would there there be enough time and resources available to get these children out of the country and into the arms of loving, adoptive families? Saving the Vietnamese Orphans is the true story of this compassionate and dangerous effort on the parts of thousands of military personnel, civilians, and humanitarian workers to rescue these precious children from the terrible fate that awaited them if they remained.
Download or read book Strategic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... dedicated to the advancement and understanding of those principles and practices, military and political, which serve the vital security interests of the United States.
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Download or read book Air Force Chaplains Air Force chaplains 1971 1980 by John E Groh written by United States. Air Force. Office of the Chief of Chaplains and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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