In this video, historian Yuri Doolan discusses the ways in which US militarism in Asia and the Pacific led to sending Korean children out of the country for adoption. Doolan’s book, “The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America” describes how the concept of the “Amerasian” to describe mixed-race children born as a result of the US involvement in Korea was used to remove thousands of mixed race children from Korean.

From ABC News. Operation Babylift: The 50-Year Journey

20/20 documents personal stories of children airlifted out of Vietnam in a high-stakes mission, their adoption journeys and their reunion 50 years later with those who made the operation a success.