The veterans, who served between 1972 and 1982, flew or maintained the C-123 aircraft that were used to spray Agent Orange on Southeast Asian forests during the Vietnam War. They maintain that the ...

flew 2,700 hours as a C-123 command pilot for the 731st, from 1973 to 1981. Almost 400 of those hours were in Patches or in one of the other squadron aircraft that had sprayed in Vietnam.

5 bulky 'C-123 providers' cut loose a spray of chemical defoliant on August 14, 1968. The chemicals used burn off heavy foliage hiding enemy infiltrations routes and base camps. The aircraft are ...

[U.S. Air Force] Not all cargo aircraft begin their lives ... the piston-powered C-123 would go on to serve in the Vietnam War as well as other conflicts around the world. Its cargo ramp and ...