"Flying flit-gun" strafes insects with ddt
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"Flying flit-gun" strafes insects with ddt
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"Flying flit-gun" strafes insects with ddt
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DISEASE mosquitoes and
flies have at last met their master in the
“Flying Flit Gun.” Avenger torpedo bomb-
ers, equipped with nozzles for spreading a
spray of DDT and Diesel oil, have winged
low over Pacific islands, blotting out almost
entire insect populations. As a result, in one
island recently wrested by the Marines from
the Japs, not a single case of insect-horne
disease has been reported. Even before the
island was won, mosquitoes had been entire-
ly eliminated, and flies and other insects
brought under control.
Beginning less than a day after the cap-
tured airstrip was put into operation, Marine
pilots began systematically spraying every
square yard of the island, thus giving the
Nips a few insect-free days before they were
mopped up. To do the work, the Marines
chose the Avenger, largest single-engine
lane available to them. A short length of
erforated pipe was mounted under each
ing and connected with a 270-gal. belly
ank. Flying low at 125 m.p.h., the bomber
was able to spray a 250° swath of insecticide.
| For the bigger islands to come, the Ma-
ines have an answer: a great Commando
ir equipped with huge interior tanks
d enlarged wing sprays, able to spew out
DT solution eight times as fast as the
“Flying Flit Gun” can.—8/SGT. DAVID STICK.
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1945-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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155-156
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Sami Akbiyik
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 146, n. 5, 1945
