by 48th Sat Jan 04, 2014 11:54 am
There was a fair number of anti-gas equipment produced during WWII. I will attempt to list all of the items that come to mind below. My intent is to cover mostly the items that were worn oir made out of the anti-gas oil skin material. Please feel free to add any that I might forget.
Anti-gas cape
Anti-gas hood
Anti-gas curtin #1 and #2, #1 curtin covered only the brim of the helmet and #2 covered the complete helemt.
Anti-gas over boots
Anti-gas gloves
Anti-gas respirator, early war general service respirator and later the light respirator
Anti-gas wallet
Sleeve Gas detector arm band
Anti-gas rifle cover
Anti-gas eye shields
As well as a medly of other items like decontamination cream, boot dubbin, anti-fogging compound and many other smaller items.
As a question to any one out there what Anti-gas item do you view as the rarest or most difficult to find?
For me I am going to say the rife cover and the #1 early war gas curtin as I have been able to find the rest of the items.