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 ...

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 ...

More than 75 years later, one of Rita Stewart’s childhood experiences during World War II ... “us being working class. The authorities, they were the betters.” Eventually, the young girl got ...

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 ...

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 ...

My parents did an excellent job of protecting my brother and myself from the horrors of World War 2. My hometown of Stowmarket ... We were taught how to use a gas mask at a very early age.

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 ...

All of a sudden we heard the dreaded air raid siren which announced the start of WW2. Being only ... we were wearing our masks. The local air raid warden then came over to us and told mum that ...