Author: Rexmond Canning CochranePublisher:
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Category : Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The 3rd Division at Chateau Thierry, July 1918
Author: Rexmond Canning CochranePublisher:
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Category : Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Gas Warfare in World War I. The 3rd. Division at Chateau Thierry, July 1918
Author: Rexmond C. CochranePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The threat of disaster on the Western Front presented by the great German offensives in the spring of 1918 precipitated American forces, then training in France, into battle some months before they were considered ready. The 1st and 2nd Divisions, put in the line early in July, did not meet any of these offensives head on. Only the 3rd and 42nd Divisions, at the Marne, had that experience. The present study records how the 3rd Division met the German offensive for 15 July 1918. The event from which the 3rd Division seems never to have wholly recovered was the gas bombardment of 15 July 1918. That morning, in preparation for the fifth and last German offensive, the German Seventh, First and Third Armies put down a four-hour gas and high explosive bombardment on an attack front of almost 120 kilometers. It caught the 3rd Division on the extreme left flank of the front. Like the earlier preparatory bombardments that spring, that on 15 July was not intended by the Germans to destroy the defensive works of the enemy but merely to paralyze morale until the German infantry could break through.
Gas Warfare at Belleau Wood, June 1918
Author: Rexmond Canning CochranePublisher:
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Category : Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The 3rd Division at Chateau Thierry, July 1918
Author: Rexmond Canning CochranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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The 32nd Division Advances to Fismes, August 1918
Author: Rexmond Canning CochranePublisher:
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Category : Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
U.S. Army Chemical Corps Historical Studies. Gas Warfare in World War I: Gas Warfare at Belleau Wood, June 1918
Author: Rexmond C. CochranePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Perhaps the most publicized single unit operation in World War I was the stand of the 2nd Division across the Paris Road and the subsequent battle of that division for Belleau Wood. The artillery, machine gun, and rifle duel fought over the kilometer of terrain near Chateau Thierry in June 1918 has been well described in both Marine and Army publications and in popular and official histories. Many of these accounts acknowledge briefly and in passing the use of gas in the battle. Some fail to mention gas entirely, despite the fact that in this operation, its first independent combat action, the 2nd Division waws under some kind of gas attack on 31 of the 35 days of the campaign. For a period of three or four days following the gas attack of 14-15 June, a determined effort by the German forces opposite might well have shattered the entire front of the 2nd Division and opened the way to Meaux and Paris.
The Marne 15 July - 6 August 1918
Author: Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. WatsonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Gas Warfare at Chateau Thierry, June 1918
Author: Rexmond Canning CochranePublisher:
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Category : Chemical warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS IN THE WORLD WAR
Author: EDWIN N. MCCLELLANPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033479209
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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U.S. Army Chemical Corps Historical Studies, Gas Warfare in World War I: The 26th Division in the Aisne-Marne Campaign, July 1918
Author: Rexmond C. CochranePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
In its week of fighting, the 26th Division advanced seventeen kilometers, the first real advance made by an American division as a unit in World War I. Unlike the French divisions on its flanks, the 26th Division made that advance without the advantage of gas. Its gas casualties, on the other hand, were all out of proportion to those suffered by the French divisions. The emphasis in this report is almost equally divided between the gas experience of the division in the two weeks prior to its advance and, partly as a result of that experience, its reaction to gas during the advance.