U.S. Army Chemical Corps Historical Studies, Gas Warfare in World War I: The 1st Division at Ansauville, January-April 1918

摘要

The 1st Division arrived in France without, apparently, any gas training whatever. Before going into combat it received not only the most complete combat training of any division in the AEF but the most thorough gas training. Gas training pamphlets, directives, and orders that later divisions were to seem ignorant of or profess not to have received, seem to have been immediately available and carefully studied by the 1st Division. Despite this, the division was to make all the mistakes of human nature and inexperience when under gas attack that the other divisions later made, with the result that during its operations in both the Ansauville sector, here described, and subsequently in the Mondider sector (the subject of a later study), it was to suffer more gas casualties than small arms or artillery shell casualties.