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US soldier spraying the inside of an Italian house with DDT for malaria control, 1945

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US soldier spraying the inside of an Italian house with DDT for malaria control, 1945

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HistoryPorn@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

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We fucking LOVED DDT back in the day.

These ads all came from the same issue of LIFE Magazine, around 1950:

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