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affidavits. Our company was
very badly shot up with Phosgene
gas, a projection attack, before you
joined us. At that time, over half
of the men in three platoons were
evacuated and about a dozen men
died from gas poisoning inside of
twenty four hours. Barker was
seriously affected at the time but
through grit he refused to give in,
and our whole company was, that
night, withdrawn, and sent back to
a rest area to recuperate. Otherwise
he and some of the rest of us would
have doubtless been sent to a hospital.
Theres no doubt in my mind but that
his lungs were permanently weakened
in that one attack, and that the