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- GLC#
- GLC09120.046
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa. early summer 1942
- Author/Creator
- Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945
- Title
- to Estelle Spero
- Place Written
- Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland
- Pagination
- 9 p. : Height: 18.5 cm, Width: 27 cm
- Primary time period
- Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
- Sub-Era
- World War II
Describes the experience of being subjected to a dose of chloracetophenone (tear gas) in order to demonstrate to the soldiers the value of the gas mask. Outlines the rest of the day's schedule - a class in military customs and the History of chemical warfare, a class on the identification of airplanes, a session during which the company were forced to lay out field wire and telephones and sessions with both the rifle and revolver. Explains the etymological root of the expression, a "gig", meaning a special detail assigned after hours as a mode of punishment
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