Disconcerting photos of Brits going about their daily lives and children playing—in gas masks. Lasting for 267 days, the Blitz rendered 1.4 million people homeless and killed 9,000 civilians in ...

This Gas Mask was used from 1939 - 1945 in World War 2. It shows how prepared Britain was for World War 2. Britain had remembered how in WW1 they used lots of gas attacks.

On January 7th, 1942, one month after Pearl Harbor, T.W. Smith, Jr., the owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and his designer, Dietrich Rempel, with Walt Disney’s approval introduced a protective ...

To assemble a collection of some of the most unforgettable images of World War II, ... A German nurse fits a young girl with a government-issued gas mask, September 1937.

When our nation entered World War II, I was enrolled as a first-grader at John Eaton Elementary School in the District. During the early months of 1942, I seem to recall being issued a gas mask by ...

World War One (WWI), known as the “chemists’ war,” was the first time that chemical weapons were used for killing thousands of people on the battlefield at a time. By the war’s end, world ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: Gas mask protection went into full gear in 1915 following the use of gas by the Germans at Ypres. With the “Great War“ in seemingly a stalemate situation, the ...

In the lead-up to World War II there were fears that the Germans would attack the UK with poisonous gas, so by 1938 the government had issued respirators to every man, woman and child in the ...

Old, Weird Tech: World War II Gas Helmet for Babies Edition. By Rebecca Greenfield. June 29, 2011. Share. Save. ... For adults, the government developed standard gas masks: ...

More than 75 years later, one of Rita Stewart’s childhood experiences during World War II can still catch up with the Vancouver woman. It can hit her in a big-box store, as Rita and husband ...

More than 150 images showing how the Second World War was photographed have been released for VE Day. In honour of the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender - ending the Second World War in ...

But a single solution was found; it would become the M-2 gas mask. This consisted of an all-in-one unit that featured a chemically impregnated pad made up of many layers along with a built-in ...