Photographs of Operation Babylift [PRG 1420/1] • Photograph
Saigon buildings
High rise buildings in Saigon with Mekong (?) River in the distance about the time of the fall of Saigon
Airport at Saigon
Smoke billows from behind a rusty buiding at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport.
Military planes at Saigon airport
Military planes lined up on the tarmac at the airport in Saigon.
Saigon airport
A person, dressed in white, on the tarmac of the airport in Saigon, with planes behind them and control tower to their right. The photograph has been taken through the window of a vehicle parked on the runway.
On the tarmac, Saigon airport
An Australian military plane on the tarmac in Saigon next to a smaller Air Vietnam plane. Near the planes are buses which are parked on the tarmac.
Vietnamese nuns with babies and children
Vietnamese nuns escort babies and children across the tarmac in Saigon.
Evacuee children
A woman carries a baby while two small children walk across the airport tarmac in Saigon.
Vietnamese woman with small baby
A small baby wearing a red and white beanie is held by a Vietnamese woman who is standing on the tarmac at Saigon airport.
RAAF servicemen
An RAAF serviceman with camera around his neck, two Vietnamese women holding babies, crewman Ian Frame and another serviceman on the tarmac at Saigon airport.
Suanne Prager in Saigon
Suanne Prager, as a three year old, on the tarmac of the airport in Saigon, before being evacuated to Australia on a RAAF transport plane. Photograph taken by Ian Frame.
Ian Frame
Ian Frame, a RAAF serviceman, carrying a small baby in a baby bouncer across the Saigon airport tarmac.
Servicemen with Vietnamese babies
Ian Frame (on left) and other RAAF servicemen holding, feeding and caring for Vietnamese orphans on the tarmac of the airport in Saigon.
Evacuation of Vietnamese children
Vietnamese orphans being loaded aboard a RAAF hercules transport plane for the journey from Saigon to Bangkok. The same day, April 17 1975, the children were flown by Qantas from Bangkok to Australia.
Suanne Prager with another former Vietnam orphan
Suanne Prager and another fromer Vietnamese orphan as adults at a reunion in Adelaide.
Former Vietnamese orphan
A former Vietnamese orphan, with his daughter, at a reunion held in Adelaide. The photograph was taken outside the State Library of South Australia cafe.