Operation New Arrivals
Operation New Arrivals was the relocation of 130,000 Vietnamese refugees from Pacific island staging areas to the United States.
Following the South-Vietnamese evacuation during the Fall of Saigon, Operation New Life, and Babylift at the end of the Vietnam War, refugees were relocated to the United States to begin assimilation and resettlement into American society. 251 C-141 and C-130 flights and 349 commercial flights airlifted the refugees to camps around the United States.
These camps consisted of Camp Pendleton, California, Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, and Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The operation relocated, supported and sheltered the refugees until civilian agencies were able to resettle them.
