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“Today, April 22, 1915… soldiers on a battlefield in Belgium saw something strange… a green cloud moving toward them.” During World War I, at the Second Battle of Ypres… German forces released a deadly weapon into the air. Over 150 tons of chlorine gas were deployed toward Allied trenches. At first, soldiers didn’t understand what they were seeing… they thought it was smoke or fog. But within moments… it became clear. The gas burned their eyes, destroyed their lungs, and made it impossible to breathe. Chaos spread across the battlefield. Thousands of soldiers were affected—many died, many suffered lifelong damage. This was one of the first large-scale uses of chemical weapons in modern warfare. A battlefield turned invisible killer zone… on this day in history. April 22, 1915… the day war became even more terrifying.