#WORLD WAR 1 GAS MASK FULL#

Another was hopelessly smashed up and must have got it full in the chest. One man was unconscious, and died of gas later. We pulled four men out of the debris unharmed. One man was sick all over the sandbags and another was coughing his heart up. The others were slower and suffered for it. I had my respirator on in a hurry and most of our men were as quick. With my first glance I saw what looked like half a dozen bodies, mingled with sandbags, and then I smelt gas and realised that these were gas shells. After a quarter of an hour of this sort of thing, there was a sudden crash in the trench and ten feet of the parapet, just beyond m, was blown away and everyone around blinded by dust. These shells came over just above the parapet, in a flood, much more quickly than we could count them. It sounded like a gigantic firecracker, with two distinct explosions. photo poison protect respirator soldier u.s usa war warfare western world ww ww1 wwi. The Huns started to bombard us with a shell, which was new to us. Marines standing in ranks with gas masks attached. By the end of World War II, gas mask use had skyrocketed among both military and civilians. This became the standard during World War II. H S Clapham, a British soldier fighting on the Western Front, wrote about his experiences of a gas attack upon his return home: The MD-1 gas mask features a more conventional design with ultra-light. The more experienced soldiers also realised that it would be fatal to dive into a shell hole during an attack as the gas was heavier than air, and so would sink down. While not particularly effective, they did develop rapidly during the war and did save many lives. Soldiers who had experienced trench warfare for months or even years would quickly attune themselves to the sound of gas attack warning sirens, and would put their respirators on very quickly.

World war 1 gas mask