A gas mask discovered in a loft has been reunited with its original owner after 70 years.

During World War II, the American military began investigating methods to protect the civilian population from domestic saboteurs. One solution the military devised was this extremely eerie Mickey ...

Dog tags have a long history in the U.S. military, and during World War II they included a notch at one end. It was there for a very practical reason.

Soldiers of the 44th Division at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in a gas mask drill. The experiments however, exposed troops to chemical weapons without such protection. Bettmann/CORBIS During World War II ...

About 1,000 Mickey Mouse respirators were eventually produced, but the civilian gas mask — for children or adults — was not really a notable presence on the home front during World War II.

Though poison gas wasn’t used during the D-Day invasion, Allied forces came prepared. In this video, we explore the protective gear, training, and tactics soldiers carried with them in case ...

They would compress their bodies and temporarily stop breathing, alerting soldiers to the danger and giving them enough time to pull on their gas masks.

During World War I, more than 90,000 soldiers died on all sides from gas attacks, which debilitated many more. And it wasn’t just human combatants who suffered — many military working animals ...

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.

A gas mask discovered in a loft has been reunited with its original owner after 70 years.