Playboy Bunnies and Operation Babylift
In the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, as Saigon teetered on collapse, the U.S. launched Operation Babylift, a dramatic and deeply emotional effort to evacuate thousands of Vietnamese orphans to adoptive homes abroad. But behind the imagery of crying infants and overloaded aircraft lies a complex, ethically fraught story. And somehow, Playboy Bunnies and Hugh Hefner's luxury jet were right in the middle of it. In this episode of History Shorts, we unravel one of the war's strangest and most controversial chapters, where humanitarian impulse, Cold War urgency, celebrity culture, and the…
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