I was at Bien Hoa for a month.
It is in the center of III Corps. Every day, several times a day, those C-130 tankers with the spray apparatus would take off in groups of three. The perimeter around Bien Hoa was like a desert, nothing grew for about a mile out. Flying over III Corps you could see this barreness all over the place. Convoying up Highway 11 (?), or Thunder Road the vegetation on both sides was dead for about 1/4 mile on both sides.
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