WW2 Disaster

 Bari

                           Chemical Warfare

On December 2nd, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed the city of Bari, Italy. It was the only incident in WW2 involving chemical warfare.

Despite being advised by his supporters, Adolf Hitler was against the use of chemical warfare as he'd been a victim of Mustard gas in WW1. There is NO advantage, and great risk in using chemicals, and nuclear radiation. Neither can be controlled once released, only a total idiot would use nuclear boms, the land cannot never be used, even the "safest" elements used have a 1/2 running into thousands of years.

The incident in Bari was the result of several misunderstandings, which was compounded by a lack of knowledge available to the nursing staff.

A - The Allies had shipped Mustard gas compounds, thinking the Axis powers would use them to safeguard Italy from falling.

B - Thinking the Allies were sending more troops to bolster the fronts in Italy, they bombed what they thought were troop ships.

C - When the gas was released, the doctors had no idea what they were dealing with, one of the first things you do with a burn is cool the skin. However, using water on the chemicals in mustard gas only made things worse for the poor men, many never made it to hospital, either dying for oil in the water, or on their way to hospital suffering extensive burns.

I used to know a lady from Bari years ago