On June 2, 1918, during Germany’s spring offensive offensive on the Western Front, a French unit pulling back ... knocked down by shrapnel and his gas mask destroyed. Ignoring his wounds and ...

By April, German chemists had tested a method of releasing chlorine gas from pressurised cylinders and thousands of French Algerian ... something to do with gas masks themselves - to protect ...

STEENSTRATE, Belgium - As a spring breeze wafted into his trench, commander Georges Lamour of the French 73rd infantry ... even as the improvement of gas mask designs required more and more ...

In small French towns along what was once the Western ... Colling says he always takes a gas mask with him because the mustard gas can be lethal — even 91 years later. He is constantly reminding ...

On June 2, 1918, during Germany’s spring offensive offensive on the Western Front, a French unit pulling back to more defensible ground encountered a newly arrived company of Marines marching ...

STEENSTRATE, Belgium - As a spring breeze wafted into his trench, commander Georges Lamour of the French 73rd infantry ... even as the improvement of gas mask designs required more and more ...