Operation Babylift: A Boynton Vietnamese woman’s remarkable story of love, loss and leaving

Fifty years ago this month, a plane carrying about 300 people out of war-torn Vietnam crashed just after takeoff, killing nearly half of its passengers, most of whom were Vietnamese children.

Mia Oddo was supposed to be on that flight.

“I was missing paperwork,” said Oddo, a 50-year-old who now lives in Boynton Beach . “That saved my life.”…

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