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 ...

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 ... 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.

More than 75 years later, one of Rita Stewart's childhood experiences during World War II can still catch up with the Vancouver woman.

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 ...

When our nation entered World War II, I was enrolled as a first-grader at John Eaton Elementary School in the District. During the early months of 1942, I seem to recall being issued a gas mask by ...

WW2 People's War Homepage ... was now standing outside of our house she promptly took me up stairs to the bedroom cupboard where the recently issued gas masks were ... please Contact Us.

GAS MASKS AND DOODLE BUGS. By: Roseann. My parents did an excellent job of protecting my brother and myself from the horrors of World War 2. My hometown of Stowmarket, Suffolk was close to several ...

My lasting Memory of World War II is… remembering bombs falling and shrapnel falling out. Going in the underground shelter wearing gas masks, putting fire bombs out etc. Rationing food, no fruit ...