Allied Expeditionary Force

Allied Expeditionary Force (1945), pp 286—88 2) Anon, "Allied and Enemy Explosives", Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (1946),... 

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The Allies claimed that the German Blue Cross shells were. not effective, and based their opinion upon the fact that the high explosive in the shell did not sufficiently atomize the toxic chemical tAmerican Expeditionary Forces owing to gassing with respiratory-irritant compounds. Deaths from these compounds were very rare. 

The CWS technical reports, along with many evaluations of munitions and plans, both for the United States and its Allies, were deposited in the Technical Library, Army Chemical Center, Md., and have been identified and described in From Laboratory to Fields The best World War I source, pending the preparation of an official volume on gas warfare in World War I, is the draft History of the Chemical Warfare Service, American Expeditionary Forces. Copies of this study are available in the Technical Library and in the Office of the Historian, U.S. Army Edgewood Arsenal. Finally, as regards monographs and studies, special note should be made of the excellent Marine Corps series on operations in the Pacific. Also worthy of special note is the American Forces in Action series, which has been useful although documented and more complete accounts have in most instances appeared in the series UNITED STATES ARMY IN WORLD WAR II. The volumes published in this series have proved invaluable, and the following have been particularly important ... 

The Allies plans for the spring of 1919 envisaged the use of gas, especially mustard, on an enormous scale. Moreover, the aerial delivery of chemical munitions was becoming more likely. The British had been concerned as early as 1917 about the probability of the enemy resorting in future wars to the use of gas shells .In the spring of 1918 Colonel Amos Fries had proposed that the Allies use aircraft to deliver gas. This was rejected by General Pershing, but the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was not unprepared to retaliate to aerial gas attacks. ... 

Victor Lefebure of Britain helped to organize the Inter-Allied Gas Conference in September 1917 in which Britain, France, and the United States shared information on gas research. The contingent from the United States was mostly a recipient of information rather than a contributor. Haber, The Poisonous Cloud, 131-32. The American Expeditionary Force also established a technical laboratory in Paris in January 1918, although its equipment arrived only in May. Sixty-five chemists, officers and enlisted, worked in the laboratory to inspect and evaluate German shells, test water supplies, and conduct various other analytical and practical research. Raymond F. Bacon, The Work of the Technical Division, Chemical Warfare Service, AEF, JIEC 11 (January 1919) 13-15 Jones, The Role of Chemists, 133 0. Britain s William Pope and the U S A s James Conant... 

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