While many military leaders defending the beard prohibition have repeated the claim that beards break gas mask seals ... in the Pacific Theater in World War II. “These studies are for the ...

According to the Friends of Dunchurch Society, the first time the statue was dressed up, in the 1970s, it was as a soldier with a gas mask and it has since gone on to take many other guises.

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 ...

The "dog tag" nickname wouldn't come for another 30 years, but it had become the standard monicker by the time World War II started ... information like gas mask size, and use their first initial ...

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 ...

Petty’s medical facility was caught in the line of fire. Petty himself was knocked down by shrapnel and his gas mask destroyed. Ignoring his wounds and tearing off the useless mask, he continued ...