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Four-plane defoliant run, part of Operation Ranch Hand. Operation Ranch Hand was a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971.Largely inspired by the British use of chemicals 2,4,5-T and 2,4-D (Agent Orange) during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s, it was part of the overall herbicidal warfare program during the war called "Operation Trail Dust".
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
The following items all appeared in the Wikipedia:Main page's Did You Know section during the month of July 2010 (see older items): 31 July 2010... that as a result of his success during the Cambodian Campaign, Army of the Republic of Vietnam General Do Cao Tri was dubbed the "Patton of the Parrot's Beak"?
Vietnam Net: Largest Vietnamese portal, run by the government-owned Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Corporation; Hà Nội Mới (New Hanoi): run by the Hanoi Communist Party (in Vietnamese) Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (Liberated Saigon): run by the Ho Chi Minh City Communist Party; Non state-run
3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines; 1955 State of Vietnam referendum; 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt; 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing; Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm
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