A 62-year-old military cargo plane could be flying home to Hagerstown soon, but it needs a little lift. A Fairchild C-123 was acquired by the Hagerstown Aviation Museum in 2012 and will return to the ...

Originally designed as a rugged transport for short, hostile runways, the Fairchild C-123 became indispensable in Vietnam. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Air Force reservists who did maintenance on C-123 aircraft used during the Vietnam war to spray the defoliant Agent Orange could have been exposed to harmful levels of dioxin even long after the ...

Retired Pan-Am pilot Larry A. Shewmaker of Hilton Head Island dropped by the office with this wife to tell something he’s never talked about until this Memorial Day. He talked about the C-123 aircraft ...

UC-123B aircraft on a defoliant run, part of Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam war. Operation Ranch Hand—in which the U.S. military sprayed 18 million gallons of the defoliant Agent Orange in ...

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