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MAINJAFAD
The accommodation areas were quite regularly sprayed with pesticides by low flying aircraft to keep the flies away, plenty of research since has shown that long term exposure to pesticides can result in the same effects as ionizing radiation. Of course a lot of smoking went on as well.
Indeed. The photo on this link, shows an Auster spraying the NAAFI and was taken by Sqn Ldr Ted Hart, who was a friend of my parents and served with my dad in K.L. in the late 1950's before being posted to C. I.
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