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Originally Posted by svandamme
The average Tommy needed very little convincing that the gas was worse then the bullets.
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I was under the impression that trench foot/flu/typhoid/etc were greater than all the combat injuries.
https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I/Killed-wounded-and-missing
The greatest number of casualties and wounds were inflicted by artillery, followed by small arms, and then by poison gas.
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_losses_usa
The United States was also unique in that - due largely to the epidemic - almost half of the losses occurred in training camps in the homeland rather than on the battlefields of Europe. The United States consequently lost more soldiers and sailors to disease than in combat, with 53,402 battle deaths and 63,114 non-combat deaths.[6]
