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Mustard gas, no mask: This WWI corpsman somehow survived Belleau Wood. Story by Jon Guttman • 1mo. O n June 2, 1918, during Germany's spring offensive offensive on the Western Front, ...

Patriotism, at times, demands odd sacrifices from Americans. During WWI, it asked for peach pits -- and lots of them.

Gas Masks and shelters. Gas masks were delivered to everyone’s house and had to be carried in a cardboard shoulder bag everywhere we went in case of a German gas attack during an air raid.

How a Newfoundland doctor invented a life-saving gas mask in WW I. When the First World War broke out in 1914, ... 1915 — the German army released more than 136 tonnes of chlorine gas.

Children's gas masks were often made in bright colours to make them less frightening. This baby's mask would have totally enclosed the baby and air would have been pumped into the mask with a hand ...

Wounds and mustard gas could not stop Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Orlando Petty in 1918, but they may have caught up with him in 1932.