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 ...

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 ...

WW2 Clips. A teacher tells her young pupils how to put on their gas masks correctly. BBC School Radio. BBC Teach.

Disconcerting photos of Brits going about their daily lives and children playing—in gas masks. Lasting for 267 days, the Blitz rendered 1.4 million people homeless and killed 9,000 civilians in ...

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

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 ...