The Reserves of the Chemical Warfare Service, Vol. 16 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Reserves of the Chemical Warfare Service, Vol. 16 They are our representatives, and it is our duty fairly but fearlessly to judge their acts. The Chemical Warfare Service was not born at home. The natural home of the Chemical Warfare Service is the War Department; but after the battle of Ypres, when the British infantry suffered such fearful destruction from the waves of chlorine gas, loosed unexpectedly by the Germans, when it was seen that gas was to play an important part in the war, the men who first woke up to the importance of this new form of warfare were not in the War Department. The chemists in the Bureau of Mines, backed by Dr. Manning, the Director, began experimental work. Later began the erection of different plants under various divisions of the government, and finally Secretary Baker, in order to bring coordination into the work, wisely recommended to the President that all these divisions be combined into one organization: - the Chemical Warfare Service. So in July 1919 the consolidation of all these different parts took place, under the authority given in the Overman Act. When the full history of this war is written, I think one of the outstanding chapters is going to concern the remarkable results obtained in research at American University Experiment Station, and at Edgewood Arsenal in the building of that wonderful plant. It was not the fault of the Chemical Warfare Service that the gas made at Edgewood Arsenal was not fired at the enemy in American shells. Tons of gas in bulk were shipped to the allies. Then the plants lay idle for months, waiting only for shells in which to load the gas. And in this connection I here pay tribute to a class of men who have never received public recognition of the hazardous service they performed for their country. I refer to the chemists who manufactured these gases, inexperienced as to the dangers attending the processes while learning the methods; men who were gassed, men who were killed, not in the thrill of battle, not under the glory of a charge, but back here in the steady grind of preparing the material for the men at the front. They went into hospitals and they went to the grave, serving their country nobly and loyally. Now another interesting historical point. The War Department was slow in making use of the chemists´ services, and when the armistice came the Chemical Warfare Service was immediately and almost completely demobilized. That was one of the quickest operations in the war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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