Re: B-25 - India-Burma Malaria Spraying Flight
Just to add that I received an account of the Spraying Flight for the period March-August 1945.
Other than details of what areas sprayed, pounds of DDT used on how many acres and flying hours, hardly any info of assigned a/c.
Flight had 3 x B-25H at Chabua and also 6 x L-5 equipped for air spray at Tezgaon (= now Tejgaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh).
In Aug 1945 the B-25H a/c were replaced by 3 x B-25J, but one of these "was wrecked during a test flight" prior to delivery.
The B-25s had a 585 gallon bomb bay tank for spraying DDT and other anti-insect (flies, mosquitoes...) repellents.
Regards,
Leendert
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