My friends I give you the mickey mouse gas mask for American children during WW2 by u/SacredBoom96 in WTF We found other unrelated posts on Reddit that contained the claim.

During World War II, the American military began investigating methods to protect the civilian population from domestic saboteurs. One solution the military devised was this extremely eerie Mickey ...

As told to Sarah, aged 7: I was 3 1/2 years old when the war started. I remember standing in the queue waiting for my gas mask, not really knowing what it was for. My mother explained to me that ...

Soldiers of the 44th Division at Fort Dix, New Jersey, in a gas mask drill. The experiments however, exposed troops to chemical weapons without such protection. Bettmann/CORBIS During World War II ...

When our nation entered World War II, I was enrolled as a first-grader at John Eaton Elementary School in the District. During the early months of 1942, I seem to recall being issued a gas mask by ...