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.

Walt Disney helped to design children's gas masks that looked like Mickey Mouse during World War II; The child-friendly mask was ... the United States, many of the gas masks were ...

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.

Soldiers of the 44th Division at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in a gas mask drill. The experiments however, exposed troops to chemical weapons without such protection. Bettmann/CORBIS During World War II ...

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 ...