"My friends I give you the mickey mouse gas mask for American children during WW2," the post claimed along with a photo of the supposed gas mask. My friends I give you the mickey mouse gas ...

During World War II, that meant outfitting a child with a weird Mickey Mouse gas mask. It was 1942 ... are the only evidence of the odd relic of WWII. [GasMaskLexikon, AtlasObscoura] Image ...

I am so pleased the BBC have created this web site for us to give are own accounts of the WW2 as there will not be many of us around in the future. My story is called Gas Masks Were No Mickey ...

Children's gas masks were often made in bright colours to make them less frightening. This baby's mask would have totally enclosed the baby and air would have been pumped into the mask with a hand ...

Lasting for 267 days, the Blitz rendered 1.4 million people homeless and killed 9,000 civilians in London. Buildings were torn to shreds, walls crumbed, families were displaced. Because of the ...

In the early years of the war a gas mask was an ever-present accoutrement - an unfashionable, square, cardboard box - or it was until Woolworths came up with a variety of alternative metal canisters.