Not quite what you thought!!

World War II: Many troops had to suffer casualties by inflicted malaria even in World War II. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's predicament in May 1943 is very clear: "This will be a long war if for every division I have facing the enemy I must count on a second division in hospital with malaria and a third division convalescing from this debilitating disease!" It appears that the general was not at all worried about defeating the Japanese, but was greatly concerned about the failure to defeat the Anopheles mosquito! 60,000 U.S. troops died in Africa and the South Pacific from malaria. U.S. Forces could succeed only after organising a successful attack on malaria.

Development and use of synthetic antimalarial drugs and residual insecticides like DDT were greatest "contributions" to malariology from World War II. The dependency on quinine as the only antimalarial was relieved and many new antimalarials like chloroquine, amodiaquin, primaquine, proquanil and pyrimethamine came into use.

Anyway some cool shots of 12th AF A-20's converted for this work, taken in Italy.







And a couple of close ups of the agitator, to ensure an even flow of the dust.



Regards Duggy.