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, ... One solution the military devised was this extremely eerie Mickey Mouse gas mask. These masks were designed to shield children from chemical warfare and to calm them with ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story was submitted to the People’s War site Katherine Campbell from WW2 Team on behalf of Pamela Cabannes and has been added to the site with his / her permission.

Kids Playing in Gas Masks and Other Spooky Photos from World War II Keystone Press Agency INC. NY. Courtesy: Daniel Blau Munich/London Lasting for 267 days, the Blitz rendered 1.4 million people ...

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 ...

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, singing. The gas masks steamed up ...