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This month my son had a field trip to the museum in Swindon where they would be learning more about the children in WWII. They had been studying in school about the evacuees from London who were sent to the countryside for safety. The parents were asked to dress our kids up as WWII evacuees... Read More »

powderbluebicycle: flyingstrong: A Couple Kiss With Gas Masks WWII Love. This.

“It may be a little irksome at first, but you’ll soon get used to it.”

The gas mask pinhole camera was placed in front of a mirror shard during the exposure. Image size: 12x10 inches, matted 16x20 inches. One camera, one image. Concept process: I found flotsam and jetsam objects along the shoreline of the Texas Gulf Coast and mapped the spot where they were picked up. In my studio, I converted the found objects into pinhole cameras. I loaded them with film and returned to the location where the found objects (now pinhole cameras) were mapped. I placed a mirror shard in front of the camera and let the camera photograph itself. The idea was to come full circle - a play on the shape of the pinhole. Of course, there's commentary about our environment, recycling, and the symbolic meaning of a shard of mirror.

A World War II veteran who says he was exposed to mustard gas experiments at a former southwest Missouri military camp has had his disability claim denied…

Gas had been used a great deal in the First World War and many soldiers had died or been injured in gas attacks. Mustard gas was the most deadly of all the poisonous chemicals used during World War I. It was almost odourless (could not be smelt easily) and took 12 hours to take effect. It was so powerful that only small amounts needed to be added to weapons like high explosive shells to have devastating effects. 38 million gas masks had been given out, house to house, to families in Britain during the Second World War to protect them from gas bombs, which could be dropped during air raids. Here, below is a collection of vintage photographs that show people wearing gas masks during the late 1920s and 1930s. An Abyssinian soldier wearing a gas mask during training at Addis Ababa in preparation for an expected poison gas attack by the Italians in the Italo-Abyssinian War. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 26th October 1935 Men wearing gas masks exercising in a factory yard. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1935 Men wearing gas masks carry a man out of a door reading “Not Ausgang”. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1935 Able seamen at the Royal Navy Anti-Gas School at Tipnor, Portsmouth play ball games wearing gas masks, to accustom them to carrying out strenuous tasks in respirators. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 22nd January 1934 Able seamen learn how to cope with gas warfare at the Royal Navy Anti-Gas School at Tipnor, Portsmouth. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 16th January 1934 Royal Marine recruits practising trench warfare in their gas masks. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 10th March 1933 Nurses wearing gas masks attend to a patient, during a gas attack demonstration held at Toynbee hall, London, by the St John Ambulance Brigade. (Photo by A. Hudson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 28th September 1935 Sailors fitting gas masks on to visitors at Chatham, England, where a rehearsal is being held in preparation for the opening of Navy Week. (Photo by H. Allen/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 1st August 1935 British soldiers wear gasmasks during manoeuvres. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). August 1928 Pest control men in gas masks spray insecticide around Winchester Cathedral in an attempt to exterminate an infestation of death watch beetles. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). July 1935 Labour supporters electioneering in gas masks and carrying sandwich boards saying, “Vote Labour. The Labour Policy is Peace and Prosperity”. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). November 1935 A soldier escorts two young visitors to the gas chambers during an open day at Kingston Barracks in Surrey. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 29th June 1935 Air Raid Precautions Department of the Home Office testing a portable siren at Hendon. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 10th March 1936 Two fire fighters emerging from a smoke-filled vent. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 30th August 1929 Workers testing safety equipment in a German factory, part of a military Rearmament programme. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). Circa 1935 A fire-fighting class being given by the Brighton Fire Brigade. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 7th February 1934 Portrait of the chief of the Calais Fire Brigade, Captain Edouard Vigne, inspecting the British Fire Brigade, during the national life saving competition in Hastings. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 28th July 1935 Scots Guards trying on their gas masks before sailing to China. (Photo by E. Bacon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 7th April 1927 A gas mask and a diving mask being demonstrated at the 10th Engineering & Machinery Exhibition at Olympia, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 1929 Three workers demonstrating the different types of gas masks used in mine rescue work. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). December 1925 A canary in a glass fronted box is being used to test the toxicity of gas inhaled by a mine rescue worker. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). December 1925 A fireman rescuing someone from a building during a gas mask class for London firemen. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). April 1928 A mine rescue brigade fully equipped with breathing apparatus. (Photo by Steele/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 22nd September 1934 A selection of breathing apparatus on show at the Shipping and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia in London. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1930 On manoeuvres armed German soldiers are wearing gas masks and riding motorcycles with side-cars. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1936 Three girls modelling various dustbowl masks to be worn in areas where the amount of dust in the air causes breathing difficulties, circa 1935. (Photo by Bert Garai/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)