United States Chemical Warfare Committee USCWC

In the fall of 1942, the Combined Chiefs of Staff set up the United States Chemical Warfare Committee (USCWC), headed by the Chief, CWS, to co-ordinate all chemical warfare activities. One of the objectives of the USCWC was to insure that all types of chemical warfiire materiel used by the British and Americans would be interchangeable. The... 

While the United States Chemical Warfare Committee did not reach as high a position in the co-ordination of the combined Anglo-American gas warfare effort as perhaps many of its members desired, it nonetheless achieved a great deal, and probably all that was expected of it. After the usual initial controversies over mission, powers, and organization the USCWC settled down and became almost a model of co-operative effort, both with the U.S. services and with the British Inter-Service Committee... 

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