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How is defoliant used in Vietnam?

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16y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Destroyed forests/jungles; was dropped (sprayed) from aircraft...operation ranch hand. Was replaced in about 1969 by "Rome Plows". Those were bull dozers manned by US Army Engineers with angled blades driving around in circles into the forest was gone.

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