Chemical Warfare School Basic Course

Class Record, First Chemical Warfare Combined Basic and Troop Officers Course, j Jun 41. For each course conducted at the Chemical Warfare School there was a printed class record which contained a class roster and schedule of instruction. 

The second factor regarded by chemical officers as basic in gas warfare preparedness— training—was from the CWS point of view the least difficult preparedness activity to handle. The theater school in Europe, the area CWS school in SWPA, the army schools in the Mediterranean area, and Unmacht s series of courses in POA provided chemical training for thousands of soldiers. Most of these trainees would have required refresher courses were it not for the fact that, as a senior technical services officer told a chemical officer in Europe, soldiers learn fast and remember well when their lives depend on learning. These area schools and combat and service organization schools could have been quickly expanded with a minimum of effort. 

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