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 ...

WW2 People's War Homepage Archive List Timeline About This Site: ... I think, fighting the Japanese, ... we hadn’t taken our gas masks.

In the early years of the war a gas mask was an ever-present accoutrement - an unfashionable, square, cardboard box - or it was until Woolworths came up with a variety of alternative metal canisters.

WW2 People's War Homepage Archive List Timeline About This Site: ... I think, fighting the Japanese, ... we hadn’t taken our gas masks.