WWI Ypres gas attack sears the memory 100 years on
Ypres (Belgium) (AFP) - One hundred years ago, a green cloud of chlorine gas drifted gently towards Allied trenches around Ypres, promising an agonising death as Germany sought to break the bloody stalemate World War I had become./ The attack failed but it seared into the popular imagination hellish images of the drowned dead, the blinded lines of soldiers whose comrades donned gas masks which transformed them into glazed-eye, faceless automatons. From the Allied trenches, soldiers saw "a cloud of green smoke, about 10 metres high, ...
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