Name: Moment a Brit baby saved from a Vietnam orphanage met birth mum for first time
Uploaded: 2018-03-29T08:47:16+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Description: This is the emotional moment a British man saved from a Vietnam orphanage as an infant met his birth mum for the first time since a DNA test discovered they were mum and son. Vance McElhinney, 43, had

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This is the emotional moment a British man saved from a Vietnam orphanage as an infant met his birth mum for the first time since a DNA test discovered they were mum and son.

Vance McElhinney, 43, had nothing but a crumpled baby photograph to show for his life before he was airlifted to England in a hastily organised 1975 emergency mission.

Youngsters were gathered from Vietnamese orphanages in a frenzy of panic when the US president warned the advancing Vietcong intended to massacre war orphans.

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