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a story on gas use in WWI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men (the musical ballad for the
by trhway 5y ago
a story on gas use in WWI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Dead_Men (the musical ballad for the story by Sabaton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFdwoyNT24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AFdwoyNT24)
"Over twelve battalions of the 11th Landwehr Division, making up more than 7000 men, advanced after the bombardment expecting little resistance. They were met at the first defense line by a counter-charge made up of the surviving soldiers of the 13th Company of the 226th Infantry Regiment. The Germans became panicked by the appearance of the Russians, who were coughing up blood and bits of their own lungs, as the hydrochloric acid formed by the mix of the chlorine gas and the moisture in their lungs had begun to dissolve their flesh. The Germans retreated, running so fast they were caught up in their own c-wire traps.[1] "