Operation Ranch Hand turned the C-123 Provider from a humble transport into the main aircraft of America’s herbicide campaign in Vietnam. Beginning in 1962, UC-123 crews sprayed Agent Purple, Agent ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reversing a long-held position, the Department of Veterans Affairs now says Air Force reservists who became ill after being exposed to Agent Orange residue while working on planes ...

From 1972 to 1982, approximately 1,500–2,100 US Air Force (AF) Reserve personnel trained and worked on C-123 aircraft that had formerly been used to spray herbicides in Vietnam as part of Operation ...

American C-123 are escorted by Vietnamese Air Force fighter planes armed with rockets on August 2, 1963. Much of their plant-clearing mission takes them over guerrilla infested territory at low levels ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has determined that a select group of Air Force and Air Force Reserve personnel were exposed to herbicides through regular and repeated duties as ground, flight or ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Reversing a long-held position, the Department of Veterans Affairs now says Air Force reservists who became ill after being exposed to Agent Orange residue while working on planes ...

In this May 1966 file photo, a U.S. Air Force C-123 flies low along a South Vietnamese highway spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth beside the road to eliminate ambush sites for the Viet Cong ...

C-123 aircraft used in Vietnam to spray Agent Orange being scrapped at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base boneyard in Arizona in 2010 Air Force image source GAIA package: ...

One of the lesser-known aerial workhorses of the Vietnam War was the Fairchild C-123K Provider, a short-range assault transport that was used to airlift troops and cargo to and from short runways and ...

AF Working Paper (Air Force Working Paper). 1979. Protocol, Project Ranch Hand II–Epidemiologic Investigation of Health Effects in Air Force Personnel Following Exposure to “Herbicide Orange.” USAF ...