Gas Mask Practice
Is there any photo of gas masks that doesn’t look incredibly creepy? This picture from 1940 shows a group of children from Hallow Village school in Worcester, England.
The girls are taking part in a practice exercise, having donned their gas masks, that would have helped prepare them should enemy forces begin using chemical weapons. While there was a lot of paranoia surrounding mustard gas during World War II, this weapon was not widely used during the conflict.