As war raged across Europe between 1939 and 1945 people were given gas masks to protect them from possible airborne gas attacks by the Germans. This gas mask has been passed down through the ...

Schmidt, Ulf 2024. Grounding the history of modern warfare: An extended book review of Peter Thompson's The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany. Natural Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue. 1, ...

The man was rebooked on the next flight and boarded without the mask. "I looked up and saw a guy coming onto the plane wearing a full gas mask, which was kind of odd," passenger Joseph Say told ...

More than 40 million gas masks were issued. In America there was a gas mask for children that looked like Mickey Mouse, with the character's nose and ears and even a picture of him on the gas filter.

A former army commander says gas masks made in Britain could help Ukrainians defend their country. Avon Protection, in Melksham, Wiltshire, makes "world-leading" masks, which are being requested ...

A sign hanging above the doors to the gas chamber reads, "Even the brave cry here." A dozen at a time, Marines are ushered into a small, dark, brick room. A thick haze of o-Chlorobenzylidene ...