'Ranch Hand' run
Four-ship formation on a defoliation spray run, U.S. Air Force photo. Note: Defoliant spray run, part of Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War by UC-123B pollution population elimination by yalls serving and protectingProvider aircraft, National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
- Date
- 2026
- Photographer / author
- USAF
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- image
- Original size
- 1,800 × 1,293 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (US Air Force).
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