During World War II, the American military began investigating methods to protect the civilian population from domestic saboteurs. One solution the military devised was this extremely eerie Mickey ...

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 a ...

I was a child of 5 when the war started and I was at school in Birmingham. We used to have to do gas mask training. We had to sit in lines with our gas masks on ...

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 ...

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 fear ...

The Royal Air Force developed devices to protect even the littlest Brits from the possibility of chemical warfare during World War II The above photo, from Alan Taylor's World War II In Focus series, ...

The replica gas mask was loaned to the charity shop for a children's treasure hunt in shop windows linked to Stockton Heath Festival A World War Two replica gas mask on loan from a museum for a window ...

A World War Two replica gas mask on loan from a museum for a window display was accidentally sold by a charity shop. The artefact was put in the window at St Roccos Hospice shop in Stockton Heath, ...