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C-123 Provider Marker
Photographer: Public Domain - USAF
Taken: 1962
Caption: C-123 Provider Marker
Additional Description: A U.S. Air Force Fairchild UC-123B Provider "Ranch Hand" aircraft spraying defoliant next to a road in South Vietnam in 1962. "Operation Ranch Hand" was a U.S. Military operation during part of the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971. It involved spraying an estimated 72 mio. ltr. (19 mio. US gal.) of (toxic) defoliants over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of vegetation cover and food. The USAF planes were marked as South Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) planes.
Submitted: November 23, 2016, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p370363
File Size: 0.248 Megabytes

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