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 ...

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.

Disconcerting photos of Brits going about their daily lives and children playing—in gas masks. Lasting for 267 days, the Blitz rendered 1.4 million people homeless and killed 9,000 civilians in ...

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.

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.