National Public Radio has posted a database of American veterans who were secretly exposed to mustard agent during WWII. I tried out the search engine and immediately located two Canfields in the database. Click on over, read the full article, and search for your family members.
The following teaser is from the article posted November 3, 2015 at the NPR website.
NPR has compiled the first public database of American veterans who were secretly exposed to mustard gas in military experiments conducted during World War II.
Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs told NPR that since 1993, the agency had been able to locate only 610 test subjects, to offer compensation to those who were permanently injured. NPR’s database, compiled over six months, includes more than 3,900 individuals and information about the last known location of more than 1,700 of them.
Read the full article and search the database.
Thanks to The Weekly Genealogist, Vol. 18, No. 39, Whole #764, November 4, 2015 for the heads-up.
