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, ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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?

Simple gas mask (Image credit: Hulton Archive/Getty) World War One (WWI), known as the “chemists’ war,” was the first time that chemical weapons were used for killing thousands of people on ...

A campaign in 1918 called for Americans to save every seed, pit and nut to make gas masks for U.S. soldiers after Germany introduced poisonous gas in World War I.

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.

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.