Kennedy gave final approval to “Operation Ranch Hand” — a massive effort to defoliate the forests of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos with an herbicide known as Agent Orange. It involved the ...

Bodish often worked on the planes that sprayed a chemical called Agent Orange across the Vietnamese countryside, C-123s. "It was called the Operation Ranch Hand. You could see the three airplanes ...

Veterans recall memories of Agent Orange in Vietnam. Operation Ranch Hand was supposed to help U.S. soldiers conquer the dense jungles of Vietnam. Instead, Agent Orange left lasting effects on ...

a tactical operation known as "Operation Ranch Hand." More than half of it was Agent Orange. Its purpose: to decimate the country's jungle and along with it the enemy's safe haven and food source.

Its solution was Operation Ranch Hand: From 1962 to 1971 ... and plants and destroying the Viet Cong’s food supply. Agent Orange, the chemical most frequently used, was later linked to cancer ...

WASHINGTON — From 1965 to 1970, an Air Force mission code-named "Operation Ranch Hand" sprayed around 12 million gallons of the toxic defoliant, Agent Orange, over 4.5 million acres in Vietnam.

Birth defects, disabilities, and irreversable environmental damage are all results of the ten-year aerial bombardment.... In the end, the military campaign was called Operation Ranch Hand ...