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.

A World War Two gas mask, found in a loft in Kendal, has been reunited with its original wartime owner after 70 years. The faint writing of a name, June Hughes, and an address, led to Yard 46 Cafe ...

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 ...

Kids Playing in Gas Masks and Other Spooky Photos from World War II Keystone Press Agency INC. NY. Courtesy: Daniel Blau Munich/London Lasting for 267 days, the Blitz rendered 1.4 million people ...

Here are photos and drawings that commemorate Clevelander Garrett A. Morgan's many innovations, and of scenes from the disaster at which his safety hood was first put to use.

For adults, the government developed standard gas masks: respirators fashioned with tin filters that people were expected to wear around their faces. Babies, however, were much more difficult to ...

Russia staged sweeping drills to test the country's readiness for a possible nuclear war. As part of the exercise, children were taught to put on gas masks and emergency responders in hazmat suits ...

Angela Nommensen, 33, is accused of pointing a gun at a Bellevue gas station employee who had forced her out of the store because she refused to wear a face mask, according to King County prosecutors.

A Wiltshire company has secured an order from the Ministry of Defence worth more than £10m to supply gas masks to the Ukrainian army. Melksham-based Avon Protection - a division of Avon ...

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.

Message 1 - Gas Masks Posted on: 31 December 2005 by Mrs K E Foulger. My name is Kay. It was interesting that you mentioned that your gas masks steamed up just like mine.