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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.

To Protect Allied WWI Soldiers, ... Unprepared for German forces to use chlorine gas as a weapon, ... Though Black inventor Garrett Morgan had patented an early gas mask in 1914, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

That might have been different had they been able to peer a bit further across no-man's land — at how German troops had dug in, under cover of night, more than 5,000 gas cylinders with tubes ...

Gas terrified soldiers in WW1, but it killed comparatively few of them, at least on the Western Front. So why was it the one WW1 weapon to be banned?

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.

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.