Gas mask on the kids and grown ups fitting went on in schools and church halls until we all had these square cases with a smell of rubber and funny little nozzle on the front to let out the air.

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 ...

Tom fully understands the site's terms and conditions. I remember the child gas masks - the type which held the baby inside!! Babies hated going into them, not because they were frightened by the ...

Now put your books down…and get your gas masks out. Quietly. Now take them carefully out of their boxes - no, no, Isobel, don't drag at it…you show her how to do it, Margaret, will you.

Sometimes parents have to explain things to their kids in more child-friendly terms. During World War II, that meant outfitting a child with a weird Mickey Mouse gas mask. It was 1942, just about ...

They came down Manchester Rd. from the council, a man with a horse and flat cart brought the gas masks, which were piled up on the cart. We got ours, all in cardboard boxes. Very small kids got ...

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 ...

and during World War II he was enlisted to help the American war effort by designing a Mickey Mouse gas mask. Fearing a chemical attack from the Germans the United States government distributed ...