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Poison Gas in WW1!!
A soldier with mustard gas burns
Poison gas containers going off
Fun Fact!!! There were an estimated 88,498 deaths from poison gas and 1,240,853 injuries.
Did you know? Only 3% of soldiers hit by gas were killed, in fact 70% were ready for duty again in for 6 weeks!
Mustard Gas wasn't meant to kill people, just to harass them,
Some types of gas could stay in the ground for up to 6 months
The French were the first ones to use poison gas. In WW1
Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_gas_in_World_War_I
If you came in contact with enough phosgene you would have a shortness of breath, coughing, then you would throw up about 2 pints of yellow liquid from your lungs every hour for 48 hours.
