Date:1940
Description:Policemen loading vans with gas masks at Birmingham ARP headquarters. There was a widespread perception that the German luftwaffe would drop poison gas on Britain during the Blitz, and so masks were given out to the population. In the event this kind of bombing did not take place but the gas mask remains to this day a recognisable image of the homefront in World War Two.
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Source: Birmingham Libraries , Woodview Primary School
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