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History Facts: In World War I, Horses Needed Gas Masks, Too

Here’s What You Need To Remember: In many ways, protecting animals from gas was more difficult than protecting humans – not least because humans understood what the danger was, and the importance of ...
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Millions of Gas Masks Were Made in World War I (and They Were Far From Perfect)

Here’s What You Need to Know: Chemical weapons proved so insidious in World War I that they were never used in such a massive scale again. While the first widespread use of poison gas occurred on ...