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The road to Ypres: the beginnings of gas warfare in World War I.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Trumpener, Ulrich |
| Copyright Year | 1975 |
| Abstract | On the afternoon of April 22, 1915, a large volume of compressed chlorine, probably close to 150 tons, was released from thousands of storage cylinders in the German trenches along the northern arc of the Ypres salient. Within minutes, dense clouds of the asphyxiating gas drifted with the wind into a four-mile-wide sector held by units of the French Forty-fifth (Algerian) and Eighty-seventh (Territorial) Divisions, killing some soldiers outright, seriously incapacitating many more, and causing hasty withdrawals of the others in much of the affected area.' Although a broad gap was thereby temporarily opened in the Allied lines, the Germans did not fully exploit their advantage. By the end of the day their infantry had overrun part of the Ypres salient and captured over fifty French and British guns, but no. strategically decisive breakthrough was attempted or achieved. 2 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1086/241340 |
| PubMed reference number | 11614782 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 47 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://moodle2.sscnet.ucla.edu/pluginfile.php/547997/course/section/10257550/Trumpener,%20Ulrich-The%20Road%20to%20Ypres-The%20Beginnings%20of%20Gas%20Warfare%20in%20World%20War%20I.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://classroom.kleinisd.net/users/1243/docs/reading_road_to_ypres_beginning_of_gas_warfare.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1086/241340 |
| Journal | The Journal of modern history |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
