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 ...

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.

During World War II, the American military began investigating ... One solution the military devised was this extremely eerie Mickey Mouse gas mask. These masks were designed to shield children ...

I am so pleased the BBC have created this web site for us to give are own accounts of the WW2 as there will not be many of us around in the future. My story is called Gas Masks Were No Mickey ...

I was eight years old when WW2 broke out. We lived in the hamlet of ... but all we school children were issued with gas masks. We carried them,like everybody did, round our necks in a box.

During World War II, that meant outfitting a child with a weird Mickey Mouse gas mask. It was 1942, just about a month after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Fearing imminent chemical attack on ...

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 ...

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.