Third British Army

Like the British and French before them, the Japanese discovered that gas was a superb weapon when used against poorly trained and largely ignorant opponents. Operations in China became text book examples of the use of chemical weapons — so much so that the Japanese actually turned die accounts of their gas attacks into a series of pamphlets entitled Lessons From the China Incident, and distributed them among the students at the Narashino school. One Soviet authority estimated that a third of all Japanese munitions sent to China were chemical, and that in several battles up to 10 per cent of the total losses suffered by the Chinese armies were due to chemical weapons .25... 

When British occupation forces in 1945 took over the Munster area, they identified chemical munitions that the army and air force of the Third Reich kept in storage bunkers or in field testing facilities. The detailed descriptions of the measurements and markings of the chemical munitions by British experts [3] are still the basis for initial identification of items found unless the outer surface has been completely destroyed by rusting. They also made drawings of munition internal structures and identified CW and high explosive (HE) filhngs as well as fuze types and other characteristics. 

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