The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
Handwritten on the back, "Clark AFB, Air Force volunteers line up to care for orphans." Photo is a night time shot of a line of people of different ethnicities standing on the tarmace under the wing of an airplane. They were lining up to help unload the orphan children brought to California from Vietnam at the end of the war.
Concepts:
African American; Clark Air Force Base; Vietnam War; refugee; airplane; volunteer; Vietnamese; Asian
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