Page Contents:

• DDT Use During the Korean War

  • Korean War Memoirs
  • Entomology & DDT
  • Reference Books

DDT Use During the Korean War

DDT was used during the Korean War to delouse American troops, foreign troops, and native Koreans.  Details about this use are referenced on many Internet websites.  The following information can be found within World Wide Web resources.

Korean War Memoirs

• See Robert Balie Cox Jr. Memoir - Korean War Educator
• See Doyle Rowell Memoir - Korean War Educator
• See Wayne Pickett Memoir - Minnesota American Legion Legionnaire, March 2008
• Personal diary of Carl H. Hulsman (2nd Chemical Mortar Battalion, Korea 1950-51) - See 13 March 1951 - "I picked two lice off the back of my head and then dosed myself well with a DDT spray can. I slept with my trousers off, first time since Pusan in December."

Entomology & DDT

Reference Books

• War and American Women: Heroism, Deeds, & Controversy by William B. Breuer.  See reference to Cpt. Anna McGoff Robie, Army nurse at the 14th Field Hospital Korea 1951.  She notes that the nurses were sprayed twice weekly with DDT.