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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.
During World War II, that meant outfitting a child with a weird Mickey Mouse gas mask. It was 1942, just about a month after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Fearing imminent chemical attack on ...
The Royal Air Force developed devices to protect even the littlest Brits from the possibility of chemical warfare during World War II The above ... England possessed a gas mask and within a ...
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. People had to always ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.