Questions on Normandy

Poison gas would be most effective piped onto the beaches on D-Day. Chemical warfare favours defenders, because they won't sweat to death running around in protective clothing.
Commonwealth soldiers waded ashore laden with gas masks, gas capes, etc. As soon as the learned that Germans were not deploying chemical weapons, WALLY soldiers discarded excess equipment. Road-side ditches were littered with gas masks, but Commonwealth troops kept their gas capes because they were handy as rain ponchoes, etc.
 
To put this all into context - Consider that during the Normandy campaign the Germans made an official protest into the use by the British of their liberal use of Artillery Phosphorus Shells for spotting purposes.

The British became concerned that use of such shells could be considered a chemical weapon and despite deciding that it was not, stopped using them anyway.

They used HE shells for spotting instead...........

That is what I meant when I said very different type of war then the war in the East. What carried on from Africa for the most part carried on to Western Europe with some exceptions like SS divisions moved from fighting in the East to the West that didn't seem to understand that the generals in the West had different rules towards POWs and the civilian population.

The best way to make it a gas war is something like the sinking in Italy happens off Normandy and the defenders get gassed, the WAllies try to cover it up, German officers think they are using gas, etc.

But, that isn't likely as after the sinking in Italy even Ike sent a letter to the German generals saying what happened and they weren't using gas.
 
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