Army Air Forces Weekly Digest #60 Malaria Control European Theater & Burma Front 10314 (1944)

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AAF Combat Camera Units Weekly Digest No. 60” was produced by Army Air Forces Combat Film Service in 1944. In Corsica, Italy, a United States Army malariologist introduces to a mosquito that carries malaria (0:55). Students examine a mosquito in a bottle. A scientist examines samples under a microscope. An airman walks into a medical tent with a panel reading “Ward II - Malaria” on the door (1:28). Men lay on cots inside the medical tent. A nurse examines an airman (1:36), and distributes medication to another. Viewers see water in shallow ponds, surrounded by brush. Airmen and laborers work to remove stumps, brush, and vegetation to channelize the water’s flow into the sea (2:03). They continue shoveling out a channel (2:33). A military vehicle sprays an improvised decontaminator onto brush. Laborers spray the area with high pressure hand sprayers (2:58). Others pour Paris green and Lyme mixture into a barrel. Workers secure the lid on the barrel and mix it, then carry it to a bin where it is stored. Laborers spray a field using a hand duster (3:53). Men load the Lyme mixture onto a Douglas A-20 Havoc (4:00). The lieutenant cuts a wide opening through the bottom of the fuselage. A pilot pulls a lever, and the mixture is dusted behind the plane (4:30). A plane flies low above the ground, dusting the fields (5:11). From the rear of the plane the mixture is seen dusting the terrain below (5:30). Viewers see an aerial of the terrain that has just been sprayed (5:42). Airmen…

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18 minutes

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Ephemeral Films

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