A battlefield on screen, David notes, no longer requires a battlefield on set, "and that's why we can do this."īut the heart of the production, he says, remains the characters. Like that earlier production, "The World Wars" looks like a bigger production than it is because of CGI technology. Among chemical weapons, nerve gases are arguably the most nefarious. Telling the larger story through individual human stories follows the strategy of David's last History showcase, "The Men Who Built America." Hitler strategizing with military generals. Their stories will be more prominent in the international version of "The World Wars," which will be released this summer and include eight more minutes per hour. Bernard Montgomery and Japanese Prime Minister and Gen. Douglas MacArthur and George Patton.Ī couple of other leaders had to be eliminated or downplayed, says David, just because of time constraints. Roosevelt, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. Thank goodness.Besides Hitler, that included Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, President Franklin D. An original WWI German Gas Mask constructed from a single piece of tanned sheepskin dipped in an oil sealant solution. I never discovered what colour our local detector WOULD have changed into. And I noticed the same paint in other places, including on the domed top of pillar postboxes. Nevertheless I kept a cautious eye on it from time to time: I was conscious of its importance and it helped me understood the reason for that ghastly rubber mask with the Mickey Mouse face which made me feel I was suffocating if I ever had to try it on. I was nervous about a number of things during the war but this wasn't really one of them. I was aware of no particular instruction from my mother as to what to do if it did change colour but I suspect it was simple enough, something like "Grab your mask - quick". But I do now wonder what my parents felt when this little thing appeared within yards of their home in, probably, 1939 - just a reminder of the probable horrors in store against which they would somehow have to protect their children. The danger of a gas attack was never, for me, a real worry - I think that by the time I became conscious of such terrors the likelihood had diminished a bit. When I was curious enough to enquire about it, I was told that it was to detect a gas attack - if it changed colour, that meant that the Germans had released poison gas in the vicinity. This was about a foot or 18" square, was angled sufficiently to let the rain run off it and was a strange, greeny-grey colour. Throughout the war, on the grass verge opposite our house, there was a lowish post set into the ground and on the top of it a flat piece of board or metal. It is very important that all asbestos is professionally removed from old gas masks It is now known that there is a link between asbestos and lung disease. Luckily, they were never put to the test in a real situation.Īs well as the infant gas mask, there was a gas-proof pram that could be used to protect babies from poisonous gas attacks.Īs asbestos ages it breaks down. During demonstrations there were reports that babies fell asleep and became unnaturally still inside the masks! It is likely that the pump didn't push enough air into the mask and the babies came close to suffocating. In fact there was some question over its safety. Despite instruction courses, few parents were totally happy with encasing their child in an airtight chamber.
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Health Visitors and Child Welfare Centres gave lessons on how to use the mask. With the baby inside the mask, an adult could start to use the hand pump. This was pushed back and forth to pump air into the mask. Attached to this is a rubber tube shaped like a concertina with a handle. There is an asbestos filter on the side of the mask, and this absorbed poisonous gases.
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The canvas had a rubber coating to stop gas seeping through the material, and the straps were tied securely so that the mask was airtight. Once gas was introduced, development of gas protection began and the process continued for much of the war, producing a series of increasingly effective gas masks.
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Then they wrapped the canvas part around the baby's body with the straps fastened under its bottom like a nappy, and its legs dangling free below. The parents placed their baby inside the mask so that the head was inside the steel helmet and the baby could see through the visor. This gas mask was for children up to two years old. In 1938, the British Government gave everyone, including babies, gas masks to protect them in case the Germans dropped poison gas bombs on Britain. This looks like a deep-sea diving helmet but is in fact a gas mask for babies, dating from World War II.
Gas Mask,FOR A Baby World War II, Original
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