119 - The British Army and the Anti-Locust Campaign
The WW2 Podcast
Angus Wallace
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
As you know I like to seek out lesser known topics of the Second World War. In this episode we'll be looking at the British army's Middle-East Anti-locust Unit (MEALU). Due to locust threatening local food crops in the middle east, and to prevent valuable shipping space being used to import food the unit was created, and tasked with waging war on locust.
Joining me is Athol Yates.
Athol is Assistant Professor at Institute for International and Civil Security, at the Khalifa University in the United Arab Emirates. He has recently published the paper The British Military and the Anti-Locust Campaign across the Arab Peninsula including the Emirates, 1942-45
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War II podcast I'm Angus Wallace. |
| 0:36.0 | As you know I like to seek out lesser known topics of the Second World War. |
| 0:42.0 | Well I have a cracker for you. In this episode we're going to be looking at the British Army's Middle East Anti-Locust Unit. Due to locust, threatening local food crops in the Middle East and to prevent |
| 0:55.8 | valuable shipping space being used to import food, the unit was created and tasked with waging war on locus. |
| 1:05.9 | Joining me is Athol Yates. |
| 1:08.0 | Athol is an assistant professor at the Institute for International and Civil Security at the Khalifa University in the Arab Emirates. |
| 1:18.0 | He has recently published the paper, The British Military and the Antilocust campaign across the Arab Peninsula including |
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