{"id":16941,"date":"2020-04-07T13:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T04:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/vietnamese-airlift-orphans-land-in-the-uk-1975"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T04:30:16","slug":"vietnamese-airlift-orphans-land-in-the-uk-archive-7-april-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16941","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese airlift orphans land in the UK &#8211; archive, 7 April 1975"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>7 April 1975<\/strong>: Flight organised by the Daily Mail sees 105 orphaned children evacuated from Saigon<\/p>\n<p>The mercy airlift of 105 Vietnamese orphans landed at Heathrow Airport-London early today among growing doubts about the wisdom of future operations of a similar nature.<\/p>\n<p>The flight \u2013 in a British Midlands Airways Boeing 707 \u2013 had been organised by the Daily Mail. A fleet of coaches stood by at the airport to take the children to a special centre at Haslemere, Surrey, set up by <a href=\"https:\/\/ashefamily.info\/history-of-pvo\/1966-1975-project-vietnam-orphans-pvo\/\">Project Vietnam Orphans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/07\/vietnamese-airlift-orphans-land-in-the-uk-1975\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 April 1975: Flight organised by the Daily Mail sees 105 orphaned children evacuated from SaigonThe mercy airlift of 105 Vietnamese orphans landed at Heathrow Airport-London early today among growing doubts about the wisdom of future operations of a s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1339,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16942,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions\/16942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}