Ww1 german gas mask drawing8/31/2023 ![]() While tear gas is irritating, its relatively harmless. The first uses of gas attacks involved tear gas and chlorine gas. But early gases werent as terrifying as chemical weapons developed in the course of the war. Sabel, 108th Ammunition Train, 33rd Division. German soldiers ignite chlorine gas canisters during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium on April 22, 1915. Titled An Ode to a Cootie, it was drawn by Private First Class Walter R. This recently processed illustration depicts an American soldier reading his shirt for cooties. £13.87 (10 off) Original Drawing, Victorian Steampunk Fireman, Strange Experimental WW1 Gas Mask Figure. British soldiers called this process of delousing “chatting,” the origin of the word “chat.” American soldiers referred to it as “reading” their clothing. 20 Gas Mask Heads 28mm/32mm 8k Resolution Resin Print by Knucklebones Miniatures. Many soldiers resorted to laboriously picking the cooties off themselves and their clothing one at a time. Baths and delousing stations provided relief, but those luxuries were not always available. It was a challenge to avoid cooties in the trenches. I suppose a good dose of mustard gas would kill them, but I think I will stay in the dugout just the same.” The enemy at home is truly the more insidious. “Unfortunately the cooties or shirt squirrels as they are vulgarly called, are not confined exclusively to the trenches and I have had many battles with them at the same time that Jerry was dropping bombs around me and I was trying to be comfortable in a gas mask. For many soldiers, cooties were as relentless as their human enemies.Īs Captain Francis Bangs, MP Company, 77th Division, wrote in a letter home to his father: ‘Cooties’ was the nickname American soldiers gave to body lice – the itchy little bugs that burrowed into skin, hair, clothing, blankets and just about anything made of natural materials. What is a cootie? Ask a World War I soldier, and you’d get a much more serious answer about a much more serious problem than you might expect.
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