Gas terrified soldiers in WW1, but it killed comparatively few of them, at least on the Western Front. So why was it the one WW1 weapon to be banned?

Mustard gas, no mask: This WWI corpsman somehow survived Belleau Wood. Story by Jon Guttman • 1mo. O n June 2, 1918, during Germany's spring offensive offensive on the Western Front, ...

TOM UTLEY: One of the strangest presents we've ever been given was a World War I gas mask, in its original cylindrical canister, presented to us in 1990 for our 10th (tin) wedding anniversary.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A World War I gas mask stolen from the Wyoming Capitol and missing for almost a century is on display in Cheyenne again after a South Dakota pawn shop donated it back to ...

The first gas masks were made by the British. Gas attack alarms were put in trenches. An empty large-caliber shell casing was used for a bell or gong, ... Both sides preferred it in WW1.

Editor’s Note, May 11, 2022: This article previously suggested that John Haldane was the first person to invent a gas mask. In fact, Garrett Morgan, a Black inventor based in Ohio, filed a ...

Patriotism, at times, demands odd sacrifices from Americans. During WWI, it asked for peach pits -- and lots of them.

Then he lent his invention to the military. By 1917 it was standard equipment for U.S. Army soldiers. And not a moment too ...

One hundred years ago, a green cloud of chlorine gas drifted gently towards Allied trenches around Ypres, ... WWI Ypres gas attack sears the memory 100 years on. By. AFP. Published.

School pupils handle a British gas mask from WW1. Newsreels of the period show soldiers using gas masks in training and at the front. H is for Home Front. video H is for Home Front.

Wounds and mustard gas could not stop Medal of Honor recipient Lt. Orlando Petty in 1918, but they may have caught up with him in 1932.