When was the Livens Projector used by the US Army?

[bonzillou]

Hi

I've found that first "official" use of the Livens projector by the french army was made in the Mont des Singes on 10.23.1917 (use of 500 Phosgene shells).

But I've found no source or date on the use of it by the US army.

If you'd have such knowledge please let me know.

Thanks a lot

Pascal

[Tom W.]

June 19, 1918, 2:30 a.m. B Company, 30th Engineer Regiment "Gas and Flame," fired 1000 projectors loaded with phosgene bombs from Fey-en-Haye at Fermen Ste. Marie. Immediately afterward, A Company fired 900 projectors from Bois de Jury.

James Thayer Addison, The Story of the First Gas Regiment (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), pp. 43-51.

[bonzillou]

Thanks a lot Tom

thanks for providing your source too which is readable on: http://archive.org/details/storyoffirstgasr01addi

I know what i'll read tonight!

Cheers

Pascal

[Tom W.]

You're welcome. It's a very useful, detailed book.