Caraway, born near Bakerville, Tennessee, had been appointed to the Senate two months earlier to fill the vacancy left by her late husband, Thaddeus Horatio Caraway.

In 1961, President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam asked the United States to conduct aerial herbicide spraying in his country. The Soviet forces punched a hole in the siege, which ruptured the German encirclement and allowed for more supplies to come in along Lake Ladoga. In November 1961, President Kennedy approved the use of herbicides, but only as a limited experiment requiring South Vietnamese participation and the mission-by-mission approval of the United States Embassy, the Military Assistance Command Vietnam, and South Vietnam's government.

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The most common herbicide used was Herbicide Orange, more commonly referred to as Agent Orange: a fifty-fifty mixture of two herbicides 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) and 2,4,5-T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid).

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Agent Orange–named for the color of its metal containers–was the most frequently used defoliating herbicide.

The herbicides used were toxic, and later found to be associated with many health conditions and birth defects. The United States Air Force launches Operation Ranch Hand, a “modern technological area-denial technique” designed to expose the roads and trails used by the Viet Cong.Flying C-123 Providers, U.S. personnel dumped an estimated 19 million gallons of defoliating herbicides over 10-20 percent of Vietnam and parts of Laos between 1962-1971. Operation Ranch Hand, the designation for the program, began in January 1962. Operation Ranch Hand was a US military operation in which modified C-123 aircraft sprayed herbicides over large areas of the jungles of Vietnam to destroy enemy cover. The other most common color-coded Ranch Hand herbicides were Agent Blue (cacodylic acid) tha… Gradually, limitations were relaxed; the spraying became more frequent and covered larger areas. Two years later, after changing its name to “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” the show became one of the most popular radio programs in American history.

Both sides agreed upon the propaganda risks of the issue. The storm came with no warning, and some accounts say that the temperature fell Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan. It all started in April 1961. It drew an outpouring of support from around the globe but the small nation has yet to fully recover. Over the next eight years, the On January 12, 1888, the so-called “Schoolchildren’s Blizzard” kills 235 people, many of whom were children on their way home from school, across the Northwest Plains region of the United States. In August of that year, the South Vietnamese Air Force initiated herbicide operations with American help. Though the creators and the stars of the Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.On January 12, 1943, Soviet troops create a breach in the German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for a year and a half.

On one side were those who viewed herbicides as an economical and efficient means of stripping the Viet Cong jungle of cover and food.

Mercer’s military service ranged over two continents and three armies. Operation Ranch Hand: the USAF and Herbicides in Southeast Asia, 1961-1971.Four-ship formation on a defoliation spray run.

The Air Force used C-47s and C-123s equipped to spray herbicides for the defoliation missions.

Air Force Historical Support Division (U.S. Air Force photo) Planes used in Operation Ranch Hand flew into Thailand, and many planes that sprayed herbicides in Laos flew out of Air Force bases in Thailand as well.

Others doubted the effectiveness of such a tactic and worried that such operations would both alienate friendly Vietnamese and expose the United States to charges of barbarism for waging a form of chemical warfare. The use of these agents was controversial, both during and after the war, because of the questions about long-term ecological impacts and the effect on humans who either handled or were sprayed by the chemicals.Beginning in the late 1970s, Vietnam veterans began to cite the herbicides, especially On January 12, 2010, Haiti is devastated by a massive earthquake. Ford’s record was broken within a month at Ormond Beach, On January 12, 1926, the two-man comedy series “Sam ‘n’ Henry” debuts on Chicago’s WGN radio station.