For years, claims have spread on social media platforms that a Mickey Mouse gas mask was produced during World War II. The oldest social media post we found that contained the claim was posted on ...

The veteran soldier relived the horrors of the infamous First World War gas attacks ... a German shell had pierced the metal container of his gas mask earlier in the day, allowing the poisonous ...

British and Canadian authorities have given seven soldiers killed more than a century ago in World War I a full military burial after their remains were discovered during a gas pipeline ...

A Norfolk man couldn't believe his luck when he found a fully intact Second World War gas mask while looking for driftwood on a Norfolk beach. John Aldridge had been scouring the groynes at West ...

Klein It’s a bitter paradox that even the most virulently antiwar of the famous soldier poets of World War I felt the lure ... about the effects of poison gas, “Muse of Fire” is richly ...

On a fine spring afternoon in 1915, a new weapon of war was unleashed ... A Canadian soldier helps his fellow soldier adjust his box respirator gas mask. In 1916 the hood-style gas masks were ...

It has been more than a century since the guns fell silent across the Western Front, marking the end of World ... helmet, gas mask and leather gear. The unveiling of Sabin Howard's "A Soldier's ...

Spratlin, a World War I soldier killed in action on Oct. 5 ... Soldiers were in the open and exposed, subjected to enemy fire or mustard gas attacks as they crossed "No Man's Land." ...

World War I changed ... considerable impact on the war’s outcome. Gas Masks – The Answer to a New Threat Though not a weapon in the traditional sense, the gas mask became essential as chemical ...

A Norfolk man couldn't believe his luck when he found a fully intact Second World War gas mask while looking for driftwood on a Norfolk beach. John Aldridge had been scouring the groynes at ...