Throughout World Battle II, anticipating potential chemical assaults on American soil, the U.S. authorities collaborated with Walt Disney in 1942 to design a Mickey Mouse-themed fuel masks to alleviate youngsters’s worry of sporting such gear.
Roughly 1,000 of those masks, that includes Mickey’s signature ears and facial options, have been produced by the Solar Rubber Firm. The intent was to encourage youngsters to understand sporting the masks as a part of a sport, thereby rising their compliance and survival probabilities within the occasion of a chemical assault.
Fortuitously, chemical warfare didn’t attain the USA, and the masks have been by no means utilized. At the moment, these uncommon artifacts will be present in choose museums, together with the forty fifth Infantry Museum in Oklahoma Metropolis.
