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No. Air Force C-123's from Project Ranch Hand flew more than 6,500 sorties spraying Agent Orange and Agent Blue. Army Huey's were also used to spray the colored agents, but far fewer sorties and far less coverage. The C-123's covered something like 5% of the land mass of South Viet Nam.
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∙ 12y agoA photograph depicting either a twin engine C-123 or four engine C-130, along with photos of the UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) helicopter have been taken showing those machines spraying "agent orange" in South Vietnam.
Note: The twin engine C-7 Caribou looks very much like the C-123, but the C7 was a US Army fixed wing transport plane during the Vietnam War; and Operation Ranch Hand (agent orange spraying) was a US Air Force mission.
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