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Abe Maddison

Poignant salute to tragic heroes of historic 'babylift'

It was a moment of great hope - hundreds of babies and children loaded onto planes, plucked from the chaos and despair of the Vietnam War, bound for new lives in Australia and America. 

In an Adelaide school chapel half a century later, it's been remembered as both a prelude to unimaginable tragedy and a symbol of the remarkable heroism of a group of Australian women dedicated to saving the lives of war's most vulnerable victims. 

Among the estimated 320 people crammed into a US military cargo plane at Tan Son Nhut air base in Saigon on April 4,1975, were Australian aid workers Margaret Moses and Gyoparka (Lee) Makk.

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