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How to keep healthy in Manila in six easy lessons
Title : How to keep healthy in Manila in six easy lessons How to keep healthy in Manila in six easy lessons
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Source : Kerr, Colin, PRG 369/31/1
Date of creation : 1944
Format : Pamphlet
Contributor : State Library catalogue
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Description :

A sheet of instructions for military personnel in Manila in World War 2, written by the The Surgeon, 1571st AAF Base Unit, Air Transport Command.

It gives details of how to avoid the common diseases in the area such as malaria and dysentery, and also gives instructions on how to avoid VD (venereal disease) and liquor poisoning. Date approximately 1944.
Subjects
Period : 1939-1945
Further reading :

Cochrane, Peter. Australians at War, Sydney: ABC Books for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2001

Connaughton, Richard, Pimlott, John and Anderson, Duncan. The battle for Manila, London : Bloomsbury ; Novato, CA : Presidio, 1995

Johnston, Mark Robert. At the front line : experiences of Australian soldiers in World War II, Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1996

Macdougall, Anthony. Australians at war : a pictorial history, Nobel Park, Vic. : Five Mile Press, 2002
Internet links :

Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) See: History: World War 2

Australia at War

Australia's War 1939-1945 [Information Services Branch of the Office of the Board of Studies NSW for the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs]

Australian Army History Unit [Department of Defence]: See: History & Battles: History Index [several sections about World War Two]

Australians at War [Department of Veterans' Affairs]

Australian War Memorial See: Australians at War: Australian Military History Overview: Second World War 1939-1945

The World at War See: Articles: Australia's War

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