About 1,000 Mickey Mouse respirators were eventually produced, but the civilian gas mask — for children or adults — was not really a notable presence on the home front during World War II.

Gas masks were delivered to everyone’s house and had to be carried in a cardboard shoulder bag everywhere we went in case of a German gas attack during an air raid. All our windows had to be ...

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Sgt.1st Class Augusto Piñeiro, a combat engineer and platoon sergeant with Company B, 9th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, takes a break after ...

Gas masks at the ready! I can remember how we all had to do something to help the war effort . At the time around 1939-40 I was nineteen and was called upon with several other young people around ...