Alvin Young Collection On Agent Orange

[allan]

Subject: [VeteranIssues] Alvin Young Collection on Agent OrangeDate: Jul 2, 2011 3:37 AM

http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/findaids/agentorange/intro.htm

use the search feature on the page to get a lot of articles in PDF format…

for example search Helicopter, or search a Base… for example Eglin..

here is one of many PDFs

http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/findaids/agentorange/text/00255.pdf showing purchase from Dow Chemical in 1967

http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/findaids/agentorange/search.htm

http://www.nal.usda.gov/speccoll/findaids/agentorange/text/01711.pdf

Approximately 10 to 12 percent of all herbicides used in South Vietnam

was disseminated by helicopter or ground application equipment. Generally,

helicopter crews were not assigned to herbicide spray duties on a full-time

basis and rotated the spraying duties with other mission requirements. The

military UH-1 series of helicopters, deployed by the Air Force, the Army,

and Navy units, generally sprayed the herbicides. The most common spray

system used was the AGRINAUTICS unit. This unit was installed in or removed

from the aircraft in a matter of minutes because it was "tied down" to installed

cargo shackles and aircraft modifications were not required for its

use. The unit consisted of a 200-gallon tank and a collapsible 32-foot spray

boom. The unit was operated by manual controls to control the flow valve and

a windmill brake. Generally, each helicopter had three crew members.

A summary of the aircraft used in herbicide and insecticide operations is

shown in Table 5.

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at least 100 helicopter spray

equipment units were used in South Vietnam, and most military bases had

vehicle-mounted and backpack spray units available for use in routine vegetation

control programs.

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