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 ...

More than 75 years later, one of Rita Stewart's childhood experiences during World War II can still catch up with the Vancouver woman.

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.

and during World War II he was enlisted to help the American war effort by designing a Mickey Mouse gas mask. Fearing a chemical attack from the Germans the United States government distributed ...

All of a sudden we heard the dreaded air raid siren which announced the start of WW2. Being only ... we were wearing our masks. The local air raid warden then came over to us and told mum that ...

GAS MASKS AND DOODLE BUGS. By: Roseann. My parents did an excellent job of protecting my brother and myself from the horrors of World War 2. My hometown of Stowmarket, Suffolk was close to several ...

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 ...