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In memory of World war ╬
Not compactuo with communist ideals, Nazis, capitalists or any other type of political system. Do not bring me any root-Semitic, anti-American or anti-German antiestadunidense. I appreciate the passion and the historic event, "mining" information from all sources (reliable) that can enrich the photos published here.                                                                                                                                                                 
German rider in the mask (gas mask) keeps a person from frostbite on a motorcycle “Zündapp» (Zundapp KS-750), somewhere on the Eastern Front in February 1942.
Nursery school children at play wearing their gas masks. This photo  seems to suggest that wearing gas masks could be fun. The masks were not  very nice to wear though.
French soldiers wearing gas masks during WWI.
A British shelter worker protects a dog in 1941. The National Canine  Defence League not only protected dogs, it also used dog-hair combings  to knit into clothing for the troops.
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An American soldier dressed for a gas attack during World War I, circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
World War I equipped with gas masks the crew of a German anti-aircraft heavy machine guns 8915-35.
Japanese soldiers posing with the trophies captured in battle at Khalkhin-. One of the Japanese in the hands of the Soviet 7.62-mm tank gun system model 1929 Degtyarev DT-29 (Degtyarev tank). Trophies can be captured as a Soviet troops and troops from the Mongolian People’s Republic. 1939.
U.S. soldiers posing for glamorous photographs. In the hands of the M1 Garand rifles with fixed bayonets M1905.
Commercial postcard depicting German troops preparing to assault enemy positions by drakegoodman on Flickr.
Czechoslovak soldiers Ladislav Erdos (Ladislav Erdos) and Boman Anton (Anton Bohmann) with a machine gun ZB vz. 26 near Prague. The second number is the calculation of the replacement store keeps at the ready for the machine gun - its capacity was only 20 rounds.