Operation Ranch Hand
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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 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D during the Malayan Emergency
Four-plane defoliant run, part of Operation Ranch Hand
"Smokey Bear" parody
Agent Orange is a herbicide, classified as a defoliant, that was used most notably by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. Its primary purpose was strategic deforestation, destroying the forest c
Operation Ranch Hand
…Agent White continued throughout 1970 until the final Ranch Hand run was flown on 7 January 1971. The use of herbicides as a defoliant had long-term destructive effects on the people of Vietnam and their land and ecology, as well as on those who fled in the mass exodus from 1978 to the early 1990s. According to the Vietnamese government, the…
Severe arm deformity most likely related to Agent Orange exposure when he was in gestation and his pregnant mother was exposed to the byproduct present in Agent Orange defoliant, 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.
Handicapped children, most of them victims of Agent Orange
Agent Orange chemical drums