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RAAF No 9 SQN Insecticide Spraying Nui Dat MAY-OCT 1970


Vietnam War Picture: C-123 Spraying Defoliant Over the Target Area

"I clearly remember that on the first Sunday I was at Nui Dat in 1967, having done my washing, I was standing outside our tent on the fence line on the south side of the Task Force area near Wah Long village, in my green baggy shorts, replete with full regimental dress thongs on the feet, when a C-123 Provider roared overhead heading south to north at about 100 feet overhead spraying from wing booms. I was covered with the crap and went straight down and had a shower. When I enquired later I was told that they were spraying insecticide for flies and mosquitoes. Many years later I was informed, via some papers that came out of a US inquiry, that the C-123’s were the same aircraft used for spraying defoliant chemicals but their internal spray tanks were not cleansed of those chemicals between spraying operations and that after a defoliant run the tanks were simply filled with insecticide and then used to spray camps such as ours. 9 Squadron RAAF flew Iroquois (Huey’s) and the Australian force had no C-123’s they were all Yank equipment.
We spent our time in the 1st Australian Land Clearing Team clearing scrub that had the powder residue from Agent orange (dioxin) showering plumes of it over us and we did not know until later that it was toxic, but neither the government nor veterans Affairs could care less now. In fact if you mention Agent Orange they show you the door.






Can you recall them ever spraying over our plant lines at Vung Tau??


In my mind there has never been any doubt about spraying over Nui-Dat.
I have a very clear photo that I took sometime in 1968 showing a plane spraying over our plant lines of 17 Const Sqn at Nui-Dat.
This is a typical Government tactic to not let any of us know what was going on. Not only did they send us to a war on a lie, they have been lying to us ever since.  See the attached photo.
Durro.





http://history1900s.about.com/library/photos/blyviet69.htm

Photograph courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
Pink Rose. During the Pink Rose test program target areas near Tay Ninh and An Loc, Vietnam were sprayed with defoliation agents twice and with a drying agent once. Ten flights of three B-52s each dropped 42 M-35 incendiary cluster bombs, per aircraft, into the target area setting fires that burned the heavy growth as well as enemy fortifications hidden there. Sweeping over the tree-tops this C-123 Ranch Hand aircraft sprays defoliant over the target area. (January 1967)



Has there ever been any Govt response to this report , on spraying of Toxic Chemicals , on Soldiers , in Vietnam , & if not , WHY NOT ???

Subject: Fw: RAAF No 9 SQN Insecticide Spraying Nui Dat MAY-OCT 1970
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 17:41:54 +1000   
Hi Guys, I think this is important enough to be distributed as far and wide as possible. Ken
 
I received this today ....send it on and be informed !!!!
 
Have received the following and attached information and believe that it may be of interest to you. This information follows on from a previous request for information from John Mordike regarding spraying at Nui Dat.

For all of us who were subject to being sprayed within our barracks or took part in the aerial missions I believe that you will be most interested.

Over the last two years I have undertaken a study on the use of insecticides at the 1 ATF base at Nui Dat, the home of the Australian and the New Zealand fighting force in Vietnam. The most important finding of this study is that much of the truth about insecticide use by 1 ATF has never been revealed.

Taking a broad perspective, my study has revealed the roles played by the Army, the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Department of Primary Industry in the examination and reporting of the use of insecticides by the Australian Army in Vietnam.
This article narrows the focus. It presents a synopsis of the findings of my study in relation to the use of insecticides at Nui Dat.

The article is based on primary source documents from Army’s Vietnam records. The records are held by the Research Centre, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, and are available to the public for research under the terms of the Archives Act (1983).

After the passage of forty years and a Royal Commission in 1983-5, it is time the truth was revealed.

For more information or if you wish to add to John's data base you can contact John at:

John

Facts about Herbicides
is a blend of tactical herbicides the U.S. military sprayed from 1962 to 1971 during Operation Ranch Hand in the Vietnam War to remove trees and dense tropical foliage that provided enemy cover.

Agent Orange
More than 19 million gallons of various “rainbow” herbicide combinations were sprayed, but Agent Orange was the combination the U.S. military used most often. The name “Agent Orange” came from the orange identifying stripe used on the 55-gallon drums in which it was stored.

Herbicide-sprayed areas and
forests near the demarcation zone, forests at the junction of the borders of Cambodia, Laos, and South Vietnam, and mangroves on the southernmost peninsula of Vietnam and along shipping channels southeast of Saigon.

Heavy sprayed area

To answer the question, Australia is only a "pivotal power" to itself as are other countries. If you mean is Australia a "pivotal power" to other countries I'd have to say no. Australia's position holds no crucial strategic value or significance to others. It's a long way to come and it's a long way to go home for any other country........except of course Indonesia, but we knew that anyway.

Bobby. wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 12:50pm:


Well, that certainly is the glass half empty view of the situation.

Chimp_Logic wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 1:56pm:


Isn't it another British colony.

athos wrote on Nov 20^th, 2013 at 6:25pm:


...we apparently learnt from the best in the business

ask the aboriginal people in Australia. The Brits invaded many lands over their Imperial pompous period of Naval based fascist tyranny. They did however agree to 76 TREATIES with the indigenous peoples of these lands

There was only ONE conquest that did not involve a treaty right up to this very day - and that was with the Indigenous people of Australia, post invasion 1788.

Instead they decided to technically and legally classify the Indigenous people of Australia as Fauna - animals. Then proceed and thieve everything on behalf of the crown. One of the first major Bio-Warfare terrorist acts perpetrated in the world was the deliberate introduction of Small Pox into AUstralian Indigenous communities (it also occurred in Southern and central America}

perceptions_now wrote on Nov 21^st, 2013 at 10:57am:



Oh NO! not totally positive?