Mission Herbicide
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Mission Herbicide

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Mission Herbicide

August 21, 1968
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.6 x 21.7 cm (6 9/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Paper: 17.9 x 23.2 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0026
Inscriptions recto (in image): (ADVANCE FOR THURSDAY PMS, AUG.22,WITH STORY BY ROBERT OHMAN) [underlined] / (NY26-Aug.21)-MISSION HERBICIDE--Spraying chemicals to kill jungle growth, a formation of U.S. / Air Force C123 cargo planes flies a bare 100 feet over the hills west of Hue. The Air has / doubled its missions with the herbicide-spraying planes since July in an effort to hinder enemy / infiltration into South Vietnam. (AP Wirephoto) (sds41040ro)'68
verso (ink): Vietnam War
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