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PHOTOS - World War II Army Nurses Wearing Gas Masks
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Posted on 01/22/2013 6:50:43 PM PST by 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
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1942; badass; chemicalwarfare; gasmasks; modernhistory; nervegas; nurse; nursing; unitedstatesarmy; womensarmycorps; worldwar2; ww2
Just call these ladies ... The Four Nurses of the Apocalypse
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:52:11 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Unlike Obama, at least Nero could play a fiddle.)
To: All
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:52:44 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
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.
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posted on
01/22/2013 6:58:00 PM PST
by
yarddog
(One shot one miss.)
To: DogByte6RER; Lazamataz
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:03:11 PM PST
by
Lurker
(Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
To: yarddog
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.
To: yarddog; DogByte6RER
Modern pesticides were derived from German nerve gas.
To: DogByte6RER
They didn’t come in pink?
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:16:05 PM PST
by
Morris70
To: DogByte6RER
The straps enhance the scariness.
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:17:37 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
To: All
I'll bet that these ladies dated these badass WWII paratroopers sporting mohawks ... seems like a match made in Heaven
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:19:23 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
Gasmasks were used quite a bit by all sides in WWII.
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:23:06 PM PST
by
fso301
To: hinckley buzzard
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.
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:37:12 PM PST
by
Trod Upon
(Civilian disarmament is the precursor to democide.)
To: DogByte6RER
Men were men - women were women.
To: llevrok
...but only if she leaves the mask on...
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posted on
01/22/2013 7:52:39 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: Trod Upon
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.
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posted on
01/22/2013 8:39:10 PM PST
by
yarddog
(One shot one miss.)
To: Last Dakotan
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! :-)
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posted on
01/22/2013 8:52:17 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Unlike Obama, at least Nero could play a fiddle.)
To: llevrok
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.
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