'Goon Gun' on Normandy Beachhead-Half an hour after landing on the coast of France, these members of a Chemical Warfare Battalion go into action with the chemical mortar which fired 20 white phosphorous shells a minute at German positions a mile down the Cherbourg peninsula. Fuses for this weapon, dubbed the 'goon gun' by doughboys, are manufactured and loaded by New England war workers.

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