Meet The Atomic Family

This pictures are bizarre, if not troubling. Gas masks in the World Wars were made as a result of poison gas attacks that took the Allies by surprise. Early gas masks were crude as would be expected as no-one had thought that poison gas would ever be used in warfare as the mere thought seemed too shocking. Still, it happened and everyone had to wear them. Adult gas masks were black while the masks for the little ones were more stylish, resembling ‘Micky Mouse’ with red rubber pieces and bright eye piece rims.

Meet the Atomic Family!

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Spooky but real!

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Have you done something new with your hair?

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Posted by Zazie | January 26th, 2008 4:34 am

True
Posted by Danutzzzz | January 27th, 2008 7:23 am

True
Posted by Archiw | January 27th, 2008 10:44 pm

True
Posted by Li Zhang | February 7th, 2008 6:31 pm

True
Posted by lauren | February 10th, 2008 7:53 am

true…
Posted by L | February 10th, 2008 2:13 pm

Actually not true, poison gas was never used on civillians in either war.
Posted by James | February 14th, 2008 6:46 am

but it was still a threat…
Posted by R | February 15th, 2008 5:07 pm

Actually, L, this is true. Many cities and towns handed out gas masks to their citizens.
Posted by Sorgeti | July 14th, 2008 12:37 pm

With today know-how this masks will be useless.
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