Cavalryman
August 2, 1917: A German cavalryman wears a gas mask and carries a long spear or pole, representing two different eras of warfare.
Rising clouds
Circa 1916: A gas shell explodes. Gas used to be released directly from cylinders, but this method was replaced by exploding shells in 1916.
Big guns
Circa 1915: German artillerymen wear gas masks as they operate a heavy gun.
Horse masks
Jan. 1, 1914 in Unbekannt, France. A German propaganda photo shows German soldiers with gas masks on horses which are wearing feeding bags filled with wet hay as protection against gas attacks. Date and location is unknown (approximately 1914 to 1918).
In the trenches
German machine gunners wear gas masks during a gas attack.
Naval crew
Circa 1911: German naval crew wear breathing apparatuses designed to protect them during gas attacks.
Phosgene cover
A German officer leads his men toward the British trenches, running through a cloud of phosgene gas that they released themselves for cover. Circa 1916.
Temporarily blinded
Circa 1918: These American soldiers temporarily lost their eyesight in France as a consequence of poison gas attacks.
Victims of an attack
The bodies of hundreds of Italian soldiers, members of the Ninth Italian Regiment of the Queen's Brigade, lie dead on the battlefield, victims of a gas and flame attack during WWI, circa mid 1910s.
