What was gas used for in World War 2?

Answer 1

In WW2, the only known battlefield gas attacks were launched by Japanese forces in China, but of course, lethal poison gas was extensively employed in German (Nazi) concentration camps to exterminate, during the Holocaust, Jewish and other racial groups' men, women and children, and political opponents of the Nazi regime.

Answer 2

There were no gas bombs or other chemical weapons used in World War 2. The weapons did exist however. This record came from 2worldwar2 com. It had the best explanation.

Nerve Gas - the world's first three types of "Nerve Gas" chemical weapons were developed in Germany: Tabun (1936), Sarin (1938), Soman (1944), all many times more lethal than earlier chemical weapons. Unlike chemical weapons like Mustard Gas which injure and kill by burning skin and tissue, Nerve Agents, like the venom of Cobra snakes and scorpions, quickly causes a total and excruciating muscle paralysis that kills by paralyzing the muscles involved in breathing.

The Allies knew nothing of this horrible secret German weapon, or the fact that the German artillery was already equipped with it, until after the war's end. The Germans on the other hand, didn't know that The Allies did NOT have any nerve gases, but assumed that they did, and therefore feared massive retaliation with similar weapons if they used their nerve gases, as Winston Churchill declared that if the Germans will use chemical weapons, he will order to "rain" the entire British stockpile of chemical weapons in retaliation. It was a "Balance of Terror" like the nuclear Balance of Terror during the post-WWII Cold War.

Answer 3

Nazi gas chambers was Zyglon B.

The Japanese used Mustard gas on the Chinese.

Answer 4

Gas bombs weren't used during World War II. You might be thinking about the mustard gas bombs of World War I.