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 ...

Londoner telephone operators and engineers trying on their masks at the anti-gas civilian training center in Gloucester, circa February 1937. ALSO READ: Horrifying Images of Nazi Death Camps ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...