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 ...

In this video, we explore the protective gear, training, and tactics soldiers carried with them in case chemical warfare erupted. From gas masks to ointments, this is a look at one of the silent ...

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. My story is called Gas Masks Were No Mickey ...

in a gas mask drill. The experiments however, exposed troops to chemical weapons without such protection. Bettmann/CORBIS During World War II, the U.S. military conducted secret chemical weapons ...

A Norfolk man couldn't believe his luck when he found a fully intact Second World War gas mask while looking for driftwood on a Norfolk beach. John Aldridge had been scouring the groynes at ...

President Vladimir Putin’s Russian troops have been accused of a bevy of nightmarish crimes, including raping a female Ukrainian soldier for days and choking other prisoners with gas masks ...