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Some of the bloodiest fighting of the First World War raged on the muddy fields of Flanders for a month in the spring of 1915 as the massive German military machine tried to batter its way through the allied defences around Ypres with every technological advantage at its disposal. The Germans had the biggest artillery cannons and the fastest-firing machine guns in the world. They also had a chilling new weapon they were about to unleash — deadly poison gas.