Paris Laboratory, AEF

Col. Raymond F. Bacon. "The Work of the Technical Division, Chemical Warfare Service, AEF, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 11 (1919), 13-15. (2) Maj. W. A. Hamot and Col. R. F. Bacon, "A Letter from France," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 10 (1918), 495. (3) History of the Chemical Warfare Service, AEF Technical Division, Part I, General History. CWS, H-18. (4) History of the Chemical Warfare Service, AEF Technical Division, Part 11, Paris Laboratory. CWS, H-19-... 

Meanwhile in France, Col. Amos A. Fries, head of the AEF Gas Service, had obtained permission from the French Government to convert a former research laboratory for tuberculosis at Puteaux, near Paris, into a chemical warfare laboratory. In January 1918 Colonel Bacon, accompanied by a small group of chemists, arrived from the United States to head the laboratory. Since it wotdd take several months for the equipment... 

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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