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...fifth monthly meeting. The assembled U.S., British and Australian doctors listened to learned papers by some of their company on "Aviation Medicine in Combat," "Moral Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs and much of their first-aid equipment." The topic of the next meeting...
Back in the U.S. after 14 months in Australia (where he won the D.F.C.). Lieut. John T. McChesney described the first bombing raid of his squadron. On the first run over the Jap transport one rookie bombardier opened the wrong doors, dropped cots, mosquito nets, pineapple juice. Second time over he was so excited he dropped nothing. Third time he unloaded all the bombs and the bomb bay gasoline tank, too. All missed...
...After Panafrica's mosquito-proofing be gan, malaria was almost completely routed. In September 1942, only one man in 1,400 acquired malaria at an air station; in October, only three out of 1,820. Most striking lesson was the experience of two groups in the same compound less than a quarter of a mile apart. One had almost no protection against mosquitoes and depended on quinine. The other group had quarters "which were well mosquito-proofed. . . . Their quarters were also sprayed with an insecticide each evening and each man donned long trousers, a long-sleeved shirt and mosquito...
Where the malaria rate is very high, where deadly falciparum malaria prevails, or "where measures of control are difficult to enforce," Dr. Coggeshall recommends drugs. But in most situations he believes in screens and sprays, would actually omit drugs. Now being released to teach malaria and mosquito control in Latin America and the U.S. was Walt Disney's short, Winged Scourge, made under the direction of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Like Coggeshall, Disney comes out strongly for screens (see cuts...
While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...