The Fairchild C-123 Provider was never meant to be a versatile aircraft. Designed in the early Cold War years, its purpose was singular: carry out short-range tactical airlifts for military operations ...
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850 feet to take off: The C-123 was built for places maps forgot
The C-123’s cargo box could carry troops, stretchers or 24,000 pounds of supplies, but its real value was getting into ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reversing a long-held position, the Department of Veterans Affairs now says Air Force reservists who became ill after being exposed to Agent Orange residue while working on planes ...
The Fairchild C-123 Provider is a short-range military assault aircraft used by the Air Force (AF) in Vietnam. Designed by the Chase Aircraft Company in New Jersey and built by Fairchild Industries in ...
Retired Air Force reserve tech Sgt. Ed Kienle, 73, holds a picture of himself, left, and fellow reservists during an interview at his home, Thursday, June 11, 2015, in Wilmington, Ohio. The government ...
C-123 aircraft used in Vietnam to spray Agent Orange being scrapped at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base boneyard in Arizona in 2010 Air Force image Nearly five months after a federal advisory board ...
Retired Air Force Reserve Maj. Wes Carter almost didn’t travel to Washington D.C. last week where, to his surprise, he heard an independent panel of scientists verify what he had dogged the Air Force ...
American C-123 are escorted by Vietnamese Air Force fighter planes armed with rockets on August 2, 1963. Much of their plant-clearing mission takes them over guerrilla infested territory at low levels ...
In 1991, Congress passed Public Law 102-4, the Agent Orange Act of 1991, which directed the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to contract with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct an ...
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