Operation New Life (3 April 1975 – 3 September 1975) was the U.S. military evacuation of about 110,000 Southeast Asian refugees displaced by the Vietnam War out of South Vietnam. Assaults by Vietcong and the North Vietnamese Army defeated the South Vietnamese Army in 1975. Saigon fell on April 30 of that year, ending a series of wars which had plagued that country, with one brief interruption, since 1940. From 4 April to 3 September 1975, Operation New Life and Operation Babylift, brought 111,919 refugees to the United States through Guam, with 93,987 of these refugees receiving asylum in the United States. Madame Vu Thai Ngai and Betty Tisdale (Operation Babylift and Anloc Orphanage) became honored guests at Camp Mineron.