Germans fires lethal chlorine gas against allied soldiers

Thursday, April 22 The 112th day of the year 253 days left Today in history On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line....

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