Smoke munitions German

The terrors of the gas cloud and the artillery bombardment were combined in a weapon which the Germans came to view with particular horror. A captured German document spoke of the violent explosion of a projector attack volcanic sheets of flame or the simultaneous occurrence of many gun flashes, thick black smoke clouds, powerful concussion, whistling and noise of impact up to 2,5 seconds after the flash of discharge. .. the noise resembles that of an exploding dump of hand grenades. 32 At Arras, the German gun crews were forced to wear their masks for hours on end many ran out of ammunition as the gas killed hundreds of horses used to carry munitions up to the front. 

Another development that facilitated preparations for chemical warfare under the Munitions Program was the receipt of pertinent information from the British. The assistant military attache in London in the emergency period, a CWS officer, obtained access to data on development and production methods for chemical warfare items, on British smoke operations for screening critical installations, on the effects of incendiary bombing, and on the types of German incendiaries dropped on London. 

---