7. When most people think of poison gas, they think of World War I. The nations of the world had agreed not to use it again, but didn't trust each other, so most countries kept stockpiles of the stuff.
German bombers attacking the Italian port of Bari, hit an Allied ship carrying 100 tons of mustard gas which led to huge numbers of deaths.
Doctors treating casualties noticed exposure had an effect on white blood cells and decided it might be useful to treat some cancers. After the war,doctors at the University of Chicago and two other universities produced the first cancer chemotherapy based on mustard gas.
8. Allan Magee, was a ball turret gunner in a B-17 bomber that was shot up and began spinning out of control over France on January 3, 1943. His parachute was unusable, but he jumped anyway and fell 20,000 feet, crashing through a glass skylight of the St. Nazaire and, of course, suffered severe injuries. Amazingly, he survived and enjoyed a strenuous life. Some believe the angle of the skylight deflected the fall.
Well. He Could Have Landed on a Haystack. --RoadDog
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