Photos of several Vietnam soldiers' wives and their newborns were taken by Oklahoma City Times staff photographer Jack Hammett in the summer of 1968.

Millions of U.S. troops fought in Vietnam. For some Americans, the war that effectively ended with the fall of Saigon 50 ...

Vietnam-- a war and a country with which America has never come to ... shooting all these people. It was women, old men, children -- all noncombatants. Especially the babies. I mean, it was just ...

In the closing weeks of the Vietnam War, hundreds of orphaned babies and children were airlifted to Australia for a new life, ...

Thieman co-authored the 2002 book “This Must Be My Brother,” which goes even deeper into the final desperate hours of evacuating babies from Vietnam. Suggest a Correction Close Modal ...

The War in Vietnam pushed me out of academia, turned me into an anti-imperialist and cast a long shadow on my life. The March on the Pentagon, the 1968 Tet Offensive, May Day in 1971, and ...

It was part of a desperate mission to get babies out of that country before the end of the Vietnam War. Thieman spent five days in Vietnam, but her tale of tragedy and heroism still serves as a ...

(NEXSTAR) – Some might recognize LeAnn Thieman from a 50-year-old photo of the longtime nurse crowded into the back of a van in Vietnam, surrounded by 22 orphans spread across the car seats and ...