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How effective were gas attacks against tanks in WW1?

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Gas attacks could be met with the masks developed by the time the tanks entered the field. Unfortunately, the engine heat was so bad that the masks were useless as the condensation fogged the glasses and they were typically chucked aside. read more

The use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years, but the first large scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I. They were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally very slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. read more

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