Hellfire boys: the birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service and the race for the world's deadliest weapons

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Traces the actions of the "Hellfire Battalion," a group of American engineers who were trained in gas warfare and were sent to the front lines in France to launch multiple assaults against the Germans.

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