DEFENSIVE MEASURES AGAINST GAS ATTACKS 1917
\n\nDEFENSIVE MEASURES AGAINST GAS ATTACKS 1917\n\nDEFENSIVE MEASURES AGAINST GAS ATTACKS 1917\n\nChlorine gas was first used by the Germans 31st of January 1915 It was a highly visible cloud of green. It damaged the eyes, throat, nose, ears and lungs. Death was caused by asphyxiation.\n\nBy 1917 the Germans were using Mustard Gas: the most effective and most publicised gas in the Great War, causing painful yellow blisters on contact with skin. Gas masks were ineffective against this heavy and dense mist that sank to the bottom of trenches and into cracks and crevices and stayed there for weeks or even months.\n\nGas! GAS! Quick, boys! \u2014 An ecstasy of fumbling,\n\nFitting the clumsy helmets just in time;\n\nBut someone still was yelling out and stumbling,\n\nAnd flound\u2019ring like a man in fire or lime \u2026\n\nDim, through the misty panes and thick green light,\n\nAs under a green sea, I saw him drowning.\n\nIn all my dreams, before my helpless sight,\n\nHe plunges at;
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