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23. I was working in Congressman Ed Medvinski's office in Iowa City when this happened. Immigrations

did not want to take the responsibility of allowing these babies in to our country.

I started getting calls from the adoptive parents telling me that we had to get the babies out now that we could not wait for all the paperwork. I got on the phone to immigrations and told them this and they basically said it would be our (the Congressman) responsibility. I assume they were getting calls from other Congressmen as well. Anyhow they gave the plane permission to take off.

The story we got was that many of these babies were already being adopted and when the war started winding down the mothers literally brought the children to the base to pass them over the fence to be put on the plane. Don't know how true this was. But I do know that one of the nurses on that flight was my cousin. She never forgot that day.