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Originally Posted by widebody911
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yeah nah... it didn't need to kill... it was even better to fill the hospitals and rear lines with blind or blistered soldiers.. 1 reduce front line troop count 2 increase cost and waste resources treating the victims 3 scare the rest ..
The average Tommy needed very little convincing that the gas was worse then the bullets.
you can hide in a trench or a shell crater against bullets..
But not if the crater had pockets of mustard gas in it..
Biggest EOD site for chemical WW1 munitions is just a stone throw away from my house.. Been there , it's
very nasty stuff, even 100 years after the war.. it's still very nasty stuff.