tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post8695985337991572365..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: 100 years of poison gas in modern warfarePeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-68833374457511602132015-02-01T22:29:58.541-06:002015-02-01T22:29:58.541-06:00My grandfather also.
Somewhere I read a reference...My grandfather also.<br /><br />Somewhere I read a reference to US WW2 plans to use gas on the Japanese mainland if our nukes were insufficient persuasion to surrender.ravennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-89150780777336120722015-02-01T21:39:34.949-06:002015-02-01T21:39:34.949-06:00And that bombing raid in Bari harbour led to one o...And that bombing raid in Bari harbour led to one of the first breakthroughs in cancer treatment.<br /><br />See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cancer_chemotherapysundaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-50408750347367720442015-02-01T21:34:37.273-06:002015-02-01T21:34:37.273-06:00Three months doesn't seem nearly long enough t...Three months doesn't seem nearly long enough to build a poison gas industry up from scratch.Coconutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-20167642532655949742015-02-01T15:38:17.748-06:002015-02-01T15:38:17.748-06:00@ Jamie: My maternal grandfather was gassed there...@ Jamie: My maternal grandfather was gassed there too. As a very young child I can remember him coughing all the time at home. His lungs never recovered. He died when I was only a few years old.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-67716422314593765492015-02-01T15:14:07.563-06:002015-02-01T15:14:07.563-06:00One of my great-uncles was gassed at the Somme.
...One of my great-uncles was gassed at the Somme. <br /><br />https://r1016132.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/crimes-act-1961-235-aggravated-robbery-ancestors-of-mine-would-not-be-impressed/<br /><br />He made it back with half his lung capacity and lived out his days an alcoholic<br /><br />-one of the lucky ones I guessJamie NZnoreply@blogger.com