Toxins and Fire:

How America’s Chemical Warfare Service Outdid the Manhattan Project in Defeating Japan

By Frederick J. Thomas, Ph.D.

Toxins and Fire will be published soon, providing information about 9 US Army Air Force Chemical Companies that played major, unsung roles during World War II. They were ready to support a massive “response in kind” if Germany or Japan had initiated the use of toxic chemical warfare. They did provide incendiary munitions that greatly decreased the ability of the Axis powers to wage war.

  • 757th Chemical Depot Company (Aviation)

  • 760th Chemical Depot Company (Aviation)

  • 764th Chemical Depot Company (Aviation)

  • 765th Chemical Depot Company (Aviation)

  • 769th Chemical Depot Company (Aviation)

  • 770th Chemical Depot Company (Aviation)

  • 771st Chemical Depot Company (Aviation)

  • 802nd Chemical Company, Air Operations

  • 816th Chemical Company, Air Operations