PHOTOS - World War II Army Nurses Wearing Gas Masks

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[DogByte6RER]

Members of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps advance through a cloud of smoke during a gas mask drill, 1942.

U.S. Army Nurse Corps members in formation.

World War II Army Nurses onning their gas masks.

Mary Brown, Nurse and Soldier

[DogByte6RER]

Just call these ladies ... The Four Nurses of the Apocalypse

[llevrok]

Hubba Hubba !!

[DogByte6RER]

More references ...

http://www.retronaut.com/2013/01/nurses-in-gas-masks/

http://actsofcreativity.com/family/?p=73

http://io9.com/5978022/and-now-wwii-nurses-looking-downright-formidable-in-gas-masks

[yarddog]

Although the Germans never used it they had nerve gas.

In General Patton’s diary, he mentions that a captured German soldier told them a barge on the Rhine was carrying deadly gas. Patton ordered the barge to not be attacked and sure enough, it contained just what the German said it did.

[Lurker]

Laz would.......

[hinckley buzzard]

One wonders, given Hitler's insane obsession with Russia, why he never used gas in his vast eastward invasion, especially to subdue Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad, Russian cities whose stout defense blunted Barbarossa. He would have had the wind at his back.

[bigheadfred]

Modern pesticides were derived from German nerve gas.

[Morris70]

They didn’t come in pink?

[little jeremiah]

The straps enhance the scariness.

[DogByte6RER]

I'll bet that these ladies dated these badass WWII paratroopers sporting mohawks ... seems like a match made in Heaven

[fso301]

Gasmasks were used quite a bit by all sides in WWII.

[Trod Upon]

I once heard in a lecture that Hitler himself was a victim of gas in WWI, was blind for several days, and came away with such a horror of it that, for fear of it being used by the Allies, he gave orders that it not be used by Germany. The ubiquitous gas mask canister of the German uniform was the result of the assumption that the allies would eventually use gas.

[Last Dakotan]

Men were men - women were women.

[BenLurkin]

...but only if she leaves the mask on...

[yarddog]

I think you have it exactly right. Hitler was gassed in WWI and is a very risky weapon anyway. The wind shifts all the time. Plus then the enemy will make you miserable too.

Best for everyone to just not use it.

[llevrok]

women were women.

My dad, who was a Navy doc in WW2 (Pacific) and Korea, used to say he was not so sure some of the women nurses were women...but there was no doubt that those who were, were! :-)

[Last Dakotan]

My mother is a nurse - so is my wife and mother of my children. I have a pretty good idea both are women.

Thanks for the smile.