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The Google Earth-based tool was developed by the War Legacies Project. Google Earth image of heavily sprayed provinces in Vietnam (outlined in blue and purple). Dioxin hotspots become visible on the map by using Google Earth to zoom in on provinces. Google Earth image of the Da Nang Airbase (outlined in red above) in central Vietnam.
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Find YOUR exposure. Map tool created by the Chicago Tribune, updated June 2014. As of July 2020, it still works, but you need to manually zoom into the Vietnam area on the global map. The map location search function is not currently functional. Find defoliant spraying missions by U.S. and South Vietnamese forces over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
Jan 30, 2020 · The Department of Defense has released a new list of locations outside Vietnam where herbicides like Agent Orange were tested and stored, a compilation that could provide some veterans proof of ...
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Jan 28, 2020 · Published January 28, 2020. The Department of Veterans Affairs has released an updated list of locations outside Vietnam where tactical herbicides such as Agent Orange were used, tested or stored ...
Jul 21, 2020 · VA releases DoD’s revised list of Agent Orange testing and storage locations. During the Vietnam era, the U.S. military used Agent Orange and other tactical herbicides for mission-related defoliation in certain environments. These tactical herbicides were tested or stored on some military bases outside of Vietnam, including in the United States.
May 13, 2019 · The canal is heavily contaminated with the most toxic substance ever created by humans: dioxin, the unintended byproduct of the defoliant known as Agent Orange, for the color-coded band on the 55-gallon barrels in which it was stored before being loaded onto the lumbering C-123 aircraft at the Bien Hoa base and sprayed over vast areas of Vietnam. During the U.S. Air Force campaign known as ...
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Agent Orange is a chemical herbicide and defoliant, one of the tactical use Rainbow Herbicides. It was used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, [1] during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. [2] The U.S. was strongly influenced by the British who used Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency.
