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4 Aircraft, 1 Runway: The C-130 and C-123 Extraction Under Fire

Airlift crews had seconds to land, load, and escape as incoming fire closed in on the only usable strip. What followed was a ...
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3 Critical Failures: How the C-123 Became America’s Most Misused Airlifter

The C-123 was thrown into missions far beyond its design limits, from overloaded extractions to punishing short-field landings. Its crews pushed through mechanical risks, battlefield damage, and ...
The Durango Herald

There’s help for C-123 aircraft Agent Orange exposure

The Department of Veterans Affairs has determined that a select group of Air Force and Air Force Reserve personnel were exposed to herbicides through regular and repeated duties as ground, flight or ...
Military Times

Report: C-123 fliers exposed to Agent Orange

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 ...
Oregonian

At least 10 C-123 veterans have died after VA denied their Agent Orange claims, groups say

In this May 1966 file photo, a U.S. Air Force C-123 flies low along a South Vietnamese highway spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth beside the road to eliminate ambush sites for the Viet Cong ...
The Island Packet

Sickened reservists blame C-123 aircraft missions

In a complaint to the Air Force inspector general, a retired officer alleges health officials have known since at least 1994 of Agent Orange contamination aboard C-123 aircraft flown by reserve ...
Stars and Stripes

VA: No date set for Agent Orange C-123 decision

WASHINGTON – The VA said Friday no date has been set for a decision on whether to award benefits for Agent Orange exposure to Air Force reservists who flew C-123 aircraft contaminated with the ...
The Island Packet

This Vietnam war bird wasn’t glamorous, until Bob Hope and Miss World climbed aboard

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 ...