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Lifesavers who swooped down from Saigon's wartorn skies: 50 years ago, the Mail launched an audacious rescue mission to save 100 children from a Vietnamese orphanage. ROBERT HARDMAN tracked them down and heard their humbling and poignant stories

They were the most innocent, most vulnerable victims of a conflict every bit as savage as the Second World War - but lasted three times longer.