Pershing, General John

J.J. Pershing, Final Report of General John Pershing, US Government Printing Office Washington DC (1920), p. 77. 

In his final report to Congress in the aftermath of the First World War, General John J. Pershing stated Whether or not gas will be employed in future wars is a matter of conjecture, but the effect is so deadly to the unprepared that we can never afford to neglect the question. 8 The First... 

The likelihood of such a weapon causing panic among military personnel decreases, however, when the leaders and troops become better educated regarding these agents. As General John J. Pershing wrote after World War I Whether or not... 

Pershing JJ. Final report of General John J. Pershing. Annual Report. Vol 1, Part 1 1919. Quoted by Brown FJ. Chemical Warfare. A Study in Restraints. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press 1968 623. 

When General John J. Pershing faced the task of organizing the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France in the summer of 1917, he decided to place responsibility for all phases of gas warfare in a single military service, and he recommended that the War Department at home do likewise. On 3 September 1917, the AEF established a centralized Gas Service under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Amos A. Fries. 25,26 The new organization had many hurdles to overcome. The troops had virtually no chemical warfare equipment of U.S. design and relied on the British and French to supply equipment from gas masks to munitions. 

General John J. Pershing summed up his opinion of the new chemical warfare shortly after the conclusion of World War I ... 

Pershing, J.J., 1920. Final Report of General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief American Expeditionary Forces. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC. 

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