Military medicine
The Bari Bombing and the Birth of Chemotherapy.
Matthew D Turner, Jason Sapp
Published: 202510.1093/milmed/usaf568
Abstract
The 1943 air raid on Bari was a military setback for Allied forces in Italy, but the accidental release of over 100 tons of mustard gas directly led to a medical revolution, laying the foundation for chemotherapy treatments still used today.