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"... Put on your mask, put on your mask, you damn fool and don't ask questions!"
American Military Medicine Responds to Chemical Warfare in World War I
America entered The Great War nearly three years after it had begun. When American troops arrived on the Western Front, they found exhausted Allied troops and depleted supplies, and medical resources were in short supply.
The American Expeditionary Forces quickly mobilized millions of soldiers, medical units, hospitals of all sizes and specialties, supplies, sanitary measures, and diagnostic laboratories.
World War I was the first modern war, using new technologies in weaponry and transportation and more, causing damage on a scale never before imagined. The war posed challenges to military medicine as never seen before. And military medicine responded.
Regarded as one of the signature weapons of World War I, poison gas remains to this day one of the war's most terrifying and debilitating weapons. |