#World war 2 polish gas mask archive#

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When they invaded Poland in 1939, it was the beginning of World War II. The CM-2M KIDS Tactical Gas Mask is one of the only full-faced CBRN rating defense gas masks for kids. Please visit my site to view if you wish images of this scene of times past. The official US representative of Lindner and Davo. It made men from boys in very short time.įreed girls to women and changed their lives to be equal among men to take a valued part in wartime Britain. Priced for many with the sacrifice of life and one's youth. Similar to the falling leaves of each summer. The change of the world we knew would be gone forever, We all took it in good humour and little did we imagine at that period in time although many of us young children so innocent of war.Ī time would come for us to be old enough too march away. Judge Dredd™, STRONTIUM DOG™ Rebellion A/S, ©Rebellion A/S, All rights reserved.Gas mask on the kids and grown ups fitting went on in schools and church halls until we all had these square cases with a smell of rubber and funny little nozzle on the front to let out the air. 2000AD® 2000AD is a registered trade mark ® and © Rebellion A/S All rights reserved. K-9 image © BBC/Bob Baker/Dave Martin 1977. Cyberman image © BBC/Kit Pedler/Gerry Davis 1966. BBC, DOCTOR WHO (word marks, logos and devices), TARDIS, DALEKS, CYBERMAN and K-9 (word marks and devices) are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation and are used under licence. Warlord Games, Bolt Action, Pike & Shotte, Hail Caesar, Cruel Seas, Black Powder, Black Seas, Warlords of Erehwon, Blood Red Skies, SPQR, Beyond the Gates of Antares, Gates of Antares, Algoryn, Boromite, Lavamite, Isorian Shard, Concord, Ghar, NuHu and Freeborn are either ® or ™, and/or © Warlord Games Limited, variably registered around the world. Plenty of great Bolt Action Polish miniatures await your paintbrush here in the webstore! Zaloga, Steven, The Polish Army 1939-1945, 1982 (Osprey Publishing: London) Lezenski, Cezary & Kukawski, Leslaw, O kawalerii polskiej XX wieku, 1991 (Zaklad Narodowy imienia Ossolinskich Wydawnictwo: Wroclaw) Korbal, Rafal, D zieje Wojska Polskiego, 1990 (Wydawnictwo Podsiedlik-Raniowski I Spolka: Poznan) Emil phd, editor, II Wojna Swiatowa, 1981 (Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza: Warszawa) Ranks were indicated on the shoulder straps and in the case of the highland division on the front of the helmet. Each regiment had its own pattern lance pennant. Some regiments seemed to have disregarded this and carried into battle anyway. For officers and cavalry, knee length brown leather boots were worn on duty.Īll belting was brown leather and canvas equipment were light khaki in colour.ĭoctrine enacted just prior to the war had the cavalry leave their lances in barracks on active duty. The front was chopped off and replaced with a leather visor.Įnlisted infantry, artillery and armoured troops wore brown leather ankle boots. There was no national marking on it.Īrmoured units wore a modified Adrian helmet that was similar to the helmets French armoured units wore. The 10th mechanized brigade wore the 1916 pattern German helmet painted khaki. An eagle feather was fixed to the left side with white cords. The eagle was brass and rank was indicated on the front of the helmet. The highland (Podhale) division wore a helmet of heavy felt with a bowl top and down sloping sides. This was the same colour cloth as the field uniform. This buckled a flap across the bill and had a silver metal Polish Eagle badge on the front. The undress cap was primarily the rogatywka – a square-topped wool peaked cap. The chinstrap for this was brown as well. Some artillery and cavalry units adopted this as well. This was painted a color called Salamander and the paint had bits of sand and grit in it. In 1935 the army adopted a bowl type helmet, which was issued to all infantry units. The Adrian helmet was still in use amongst the cavalry, some artillery and National Guard units. This was superseded by the bowl type helmet for the infantry in 1935. For cavalry units the colours of the tunic would have copies of the lance pennants for the regiment on them as belowįollowing the Russo-Polish war in 1921 the army adopted a version of the 1916 French Adrian helmet with the Polish Eagle badge in the front painted khaki green. World War II, A warden fits a childrens 'Mickey Mouse' gas mask respirator to a child as the mother looks on, 21st October 1939. Likewise some overcoats had a yellow over blue vertical stripes on the collars. Some infantry had blue patches on their collars that were left over from the pre-war era. 07 – leather ammo pouches for Mauser ammo

World war 2 polish gas mask