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Description	English: A Chinese squad deployed outside Shanghai. Gas masks were standard issue, at least among the best Chinese units, and there were several reports of the use of gas on either side during the campaign, although it has proven a challenge to separate reality from propaganda.
Date	1937 (during the Battle of Shanghai)
Source	Photo album (between p. 144 and p. 145) in Peter Harmsen, Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, Casemate, 2013.
Author	Unknown photographer

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