Edgar Robert Melton from Dallas, Texas, Dallas county.
Service era: Vietnam
Child: Debbie Melton
Date of death: Thursday, April 10, 1975
Death details: Was the co-pilot of the C5 Galaxy cargo plane that crashed while taking part in Operation Babylift
Source: National Archives, Tampa Bay Times (1975)
Mary Therese Klinker, age 27, from Lafayette, Indiana.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 4, 1975
Death details: She participated in Operation Babylife to evacuate hundreds of South Vietnamese children in the spring 1975. She was among those on board an overcrowded plane that crashed near Saigon into a rice paddy field shortly after takeoff.
Source: National Archives, Time (2021), San Francisco Examiner (1975)
Denning Cicero Johnson from Dunn, North Carolina, Harnett county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 4, 1975
Death details: He participated in Operation Babylife to evacuate hundreds of South Vietnamese children in the spring 1975. He was among those on board an overcrowded plane that crashed into a rice paddy field shortly after takeoff.
Source: National Archives, San Francisco Examiner (1975)
William Sherrill Willis from Coats, North Carolina, Harnett county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 4, 1975
Death details: He participated in Operation Babylife to evacuate hundreds of South Vietnamese children in the spring 1975. He was among those on board an overcrowded plane that crashed into a rice paddy field shortly after takeoff.
Source: National Archives, San Francisco Examiner (1975)
Michael Gordon Paget from Woodland Hills, California, Los Angeles county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, April 4, 1975
Death details: He participated in Operation Babylife to evacuate hundreds of South Vietnamese children in the spring 1975. He was among those on board an overcrowded plane that crashed into a rice paddy field shortly after takeoff.
Source: National Archives, San Francisco Examiner (1975)