April 6, 2008

THE TRUTH ABOUT Poison Gas (Nov, 1937)

Filed under: War — @ 10:06 pm
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Nov, 1937
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THE TRUTH ABOUT Poison Gas

By ALDEN P. ARMAGNAC

FRANCE sells gas masks to its citizens on a five-year installment plan. Germany reveals that it has secretly been manufacturing a new type of gas mask for noncombatants, by the million. Startled Britons learn that the world’s first factory for civilian masks, at Blackburn, England, has passed its 9,000,000 mark and is turning out 100,000 a day to reach its quota of a gas mask for every man, woman, and child in the British Isles.
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February 29, 2008

Bayonets Thrust into Snow Man by Soldiers at Practice (Mar, 1941)

Filed under: Just Weird, War — @ 1:59 am
Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Mar, 1941
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What are they practicing for? An attack by 10ft snowmen?

Bayonets Thrust into Snow Man by Soldiers at Practice
Encountering a snow man on the grounds of Fort Dix, N. J., two zealous soldiers attached to company L, 174th infantry, took an opportunity to demonstrate an attack with bayonets. National guardsmen and draftees are receiving army training at the fort.

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