Reply To: Mustard Gas Detection in ww2

[Jim Ripley]

All German tanks have holders for the gas mask cases near each crew position along with a breathing tube in a holder . I guess using the full mask in the tank would restrict vision in combat although I thought the gas was supposed to burn exposed eyes & skin . You can see the holders in various museum vehicles ( Saumar Sturm Tiger ) and in the gutted Maus hull on the Russian You Tube walk around , so even late war the Germans still worried about gas , or just never took the instillation of GM cases off their blue prints