| dc.creator | Hays, Joseph Warren | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-02T18:29:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-02T18:29:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1943-10-07 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/40626 | |
| dc.description | Hays talks about getting gassed with mustard gas. | |
| dc.format.medium | paper | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.relation | Joseph Warren Hays Papers (MS 159) | |
| dc.rights | Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any file. | |
| dc.source | Series I, Box 1, Folder 1 | |
| dc.subject | World War II | |
| dc.subject | United States Army | |
| dc.subject | United States Army Air Corps | |
| dc.subject | Maxwell Field, AL | |
| dc.title | Hays letter to family | |
| dc.type | Document | |
| dc.description.transcription | 10-7-43Dear Folks,I guess by thistime you have started going to the mail box again. If you have I don’t blame you because it has been 5 days since I addressed a letter to 5’12. I am notso pressed for timeso I’ll try to get a letter home twice a week for the rest of my stay at Maxwell.The only thing new that I have to tell is that I have been gassed. I guess if that magazine has gotten home you have read about the mention of the sniff of mustard gas. I’vehad my sniff now, the only thing is it wasn’t very successful. The wind was blowing too hard and the gas blew by before we hardly got a smell. They also turned loose some Lewisite, Phosgene, and Chloropicrin. We hardly even got a smell but I think that I would be able to identify any of them if I ever were really in a gas attack, and that was the idea of the whole thing. If and when gas is used the U.S. soldier is going to be prepared. Any harm that is what they are striving for. Don’t be surprised if it is used in the near future. And another thing to not be surprised or astonished about is that we might use it first. It isn’t this humane idea that is holding it back now. It has its other disadvantages but they are being overcome gradually. We have some new airplanes coming off of the assembly lines too. You’ll probably hear from them within the next 6 months. You don’t have to tell all your friends that your boy Joseph knows all of the inside military information that there is to be known because he doesn’t. These are just a couple of the things that I have picked up around here that aren’t for general publication.Its time for me and the physics book to get acquainted so I’ll quit until the next time.Love, Joe | |
