Capt. Mary T. Klinker - USAF, Apr. 4, 1975

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Born October 3, 1947, Captain Mary Therese Klinker was a flight nurse assigned to Clark Air Base in the Philippines.-

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She was attending to the health care of hundreds of Vietnamese orphans on a U.S. Air Force C-5A Galaxy which crashed on April 4, 1975 near Saigon. The plane was on a mission for Operation Babylift, which had placed hundreds of Amerasian orphans with homes in the U.S.A.-

Captian Klinker was 27 years old.-

She was posthumously awarded the Airman's Medal for Heroism and the Meritorious Service Medal.-
 
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