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In secret chemical weapons experiments conducted during World War II, the U.S. military exposed thousands of American troops to mustard gas. When those experiments were formally declassified in the ...

Arla Harrell, a WWII veteran, with his wife, Betty, at the nursing home where they live in Macon, Mo. WASHINGTON • The Department of Veterans Affairs has paid almost $1 million to 17 World War II ...

Many veterans used in secret U.S. military experiments during World War II weren't notified they could apply for compensation. Claire McCaskill's... Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., plans to introduce ...

NEOSHO, Mo. -- A World War II veteran who says he was exposed to mustard gas experiments at a one-time southwestern Missouri military camp has had his disability claim denied for the fourth time in ...

Charles "Lindy" Cavell could never forget what the U.S. military tried to hide. Cavell fought to bring to light the secret mustard gas testing program he had participated in during World War II and ...

Midwest representatives of the Office of Civilian Defense together with Detroit chemical experts sniffed war’s deadliest gases during a three-day course sponsored by the OCD’s Gas Officers Institute ...

WASHINGTON • A bill granting more help to soldier-victims of mustard gas experiments during World War II got a boost when a bipartisan contingent of members of the House of Representatives on ...

NNMAHMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were ...

When the Pentagon revealed it secretly exposed enlisted men to mustard gas during WWII, VA officials promised disability benefits. But an NPR... The VA's Broken Promise To Thousands Of Vets Exposed To ...