Operation Ranch Hand was a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971. Largely inspired by the British use of chemicals...
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A ranch hand is a manual laborer on a ranch, such as a cowboy. Ranch Hand may also refer to: Operation Ranch Hand, a US Air Force operation during the...
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1950s, which led to the formal herbicidal program Trail Dust (see Operation Ranch Hand). Herbicidal warfare is the use of substances primarily designed...
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Emergency led to the formal herbicidal program Operation Trail Dust (1961–1971). Operation Ranch Hand, a U.S. Air Force program to use C-123K aircraft...
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12th Airborne Command and Control Squadron (redirect from 12th Special Operations Squadron (Vietnam))
September 1945 and was inactivated in October. In the fall of 1966 Operation Ranch Hand expanded its size with the delivery of eleven additional Fairchild...
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Agent Orange (category Operation Ranch Hand)
by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. The U.S. was strongly...
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Operation Pacer HO was a 1977 operation of the U.S. Air Force that incinerated the Agent Orange stored at Johnston Atoll aboard the Dutch-owned ship M/T...
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Fairchild C-123 Provider (section Covert operations)
Whale. The C-123 also gained notoriety for its use in "Operation Ranch Hand" defoliation operations in Vietnam. Oddly enough, the USAF had officially chosen...
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Operation Hades may refer to: Operation Hades, which resulted in the Plutonium affair in Germany Operation Hades, part of Operation Ranch Hand during the...
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narrow-leafed plants and trees (grass, rice, bamboo, banana, etc.) "Operation Ranch Hand" was military code for spraying of herbicides from U.S. Air Force...
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