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A World War I British P Helmet, c. 1915 Zelinsky–Kummant protivogaz, designed in 1915, was one of the first modern-type full-head protection gas masks with a detachable filter and eyelet glasses, shown here worn by U.S. Army soldier (USAWC photo) Indian muleteers and mule wearing gas masks, France, February 21, 1940 A Polish SzM-41M KF gas mask, used from the 1950s through to the 1980s
Gas, 1944. The film is set in a military camp, with a sign informing viewers that the camp is situated at a distance of 3642.5 miles (5862 kilometers) from Brooklyn. [1] An alarm alerts the soldiers to wear their gas masks and assemble at a predetermined area of the camp.
American soldiers wearing M2 gas masks in a frontline trench (1919 postcard image) The M2 gas mask was a French-made gas mask used by French, British and American forces from April 1916 to August 1918 during World War I. [1] The M2 was fabricated in large quantities, with about 29,300,000 being made during the war. [2]
Mauldin was an 18-year-old soldier training with the 45th Infantry Division in 1940. He cartooned part-time for the camp newspaper. He cartooned part-time for the camp newspaper. Near the end of 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor , and the US entered World War II .
The composition includes a central group of eleven soldiers depicted nearly life-size. Ten wounded soldiers walk in a line along a duckboard towards a dressing station, suggested by the ropes on the right side of the picture. Their eyes are bandaged, blinded by the effect of the gas, so they are assisted by a medical orderly. The line of tall ...
The Zelinsky-Kummant gas mask was the world's first gas mask [1] which had the ability to absorb a wide range of chemical warfare agents. The gas mask was developed in 1915 by Russian chemist Nikolay Zelinsky and technologist of the Triangle plant M.I. Kummant. [2] The design was later improved by I. D. Avalov and entered mass production.
Earlier versions of the gas mask prior to 1915s development of the small box respirator were crude and ineffective as no troops had yet experienced poison warfare. One of the first gas masks seen in the early part of the war was the British hypo helmet, after recent failure and ineffectiveness of the black veil respirator. The helmet was ...
The GP-4u gas mask in the Yekaterinburg school. The GP-4u (Russian: Гражда́нский Противога́з-4у, Grazhdanskii Protivogaz-4u) gas mask was one of the most widely produced gas masks in the USSR. The civilian GP-4u gas mask consists of the facepiece, the hose and a cylinder-shaped filter, which is screwed onto the end of ...