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...

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...

the 1950s 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...

by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. It is a mixture of equal...

1950s, which led to the formal herbicidal program Trail Dust (see Operation Ranch Hand). Herbicidal warfare is the use of substances primarily designed...

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...

of South Vietnam. In response, the USAF launched Operation Freedom Train, later redesignated Operation Linebacker, the first sustained bombing of North...

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...

and paratroops: 165  The 315th ACG was responsible for Operation Ranch Hand Defoliant operations missions. After some modifications to the aircraft (which...

guerilla warfare. The U.S. Agent Orange usage reached an apex during Operation Ranch Hand, in which the material (with its extremely toxic impurity, dioxin)...

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...

Service. p. 503. "Agent Orange: Persisting Problems With Communication of Ranch Hand Study Data and Results" (PDF). U.S. GAO ~ T-NSIAD-00-117. U.S. Government...

Operation Hades may refer to: Operation Hades, which resulted in the Plutonium affair in Germany Operation Hades, part of Operation Ranch Hand during the...

Southern Vietnam as part of the U.S. herbicidal warfare program Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War, from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam's government claimed...

known by the name "2,4,5-T Dioxin" and used in the US Military's Operation Ranch Hand and on Canada's CFB Gagetown Canadian Forces Base in rural New Brunswick...

ester 2,4,5-T n-butyl ester 2,4,5-T iso-butyl ester Even prior to Operation Ranch Hand (1962-1971) it was known that 2,4,5-T, and thus Agent Purple, Agent...

one of the common phenoxy herbicides of the era. Even prior to Operation Ranch Hand (1962-1971) it was known that a dioxin, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin...

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...

extinction Involuntary manslaughter List of environmental issues Operation Ranch Hand Rights of nature Scorched earth War on drugs#Aerial herbicide application...

contained about 60%–40% of this active substance. Even prior to Operation Ranch Hand (1962–1971) it was known that a dioxin, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin...

Chemical Corps operated a program that would become known as Operation Ranch Hand. Ranch Hand was a herbicidal warfare program which used herbicides and...

livestock-raising operations in Mexico, the Western United States and Western Canada, though there are ranches in other areas. People who own or operate a ranch are...

was cancelled.: 236–239  In December 1965 the USAF began its first Operation Ranch Hand defoliation missions against the trail in Laos using both Agent Blue...

use of herbicides to kill food crops. This was the beginning of Operation Ranch Hand which would defoliate much of South Vietnam during the next decade...

as cover, initially conducted by the United States Air Force in Operation Ranch Hand in 1962. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy; the Big Fool said to push on...

Lawrence Seaway is held. 1961 – Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons (76,000 m3) of defoliants...

States used Agent Orange as a part of its herbicidal warfare program Operation Ranch Hand to destroy crops and foliage to expose possible enemy hideouts during...

S. military defoliation program during the Vietnam war known as Operation Ranch Hand. The use of a chemical or biological agents to destroy Japan's rice...

aerial artillery direction, and as escorts for aircraft engaged in Operation Ranch Hand. The aircraft's ability to generate smoke internally was used for...

of the Communist world and under direct attack". October 1962 — Operation Ranch Hand begins. U.S. planes spray herbicides and defoliants over South Vietnam...