Question

During the Vietnam War, US forces used Agent Orange to:
A. locate Viet Cong camps.
B. infiltrate Viet Cong camps.
C. bomb enemy supply lines.
D. kill off acres of jungle cover.

Answer 1

Answer:

d is the correct answer to the question

Answer 2

D. kill off acres of jungle cover.

Explanation:

• Over 20 million gallons of different herbicides were sprayed over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1961-1971 under the code- name "Operation Ranch Hand". The most widely used herbicide used as the agent Orange was toxic chemical dioxin
• Between 1961-1971, the US military dispersed more than 4.5 million hectares of herbicides in Vietnam to kill  the  food crops and forest cover used by enemy  Viet Cong troops and North Vietnamese. US aircraft had  deployed on ponds, canals, douse roads,  farmland, and rice paddies with heavy herbicide varieties.