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[[File:Gas mask.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A soldier on [[Skaro]] wearing a gas mask. ([[DW]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'')]]
[[File:Gas mask.jpg|right|thumb|A soldier on [[Skaro]] wearing a gas mask. ([[DW]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'')]]
'''Gas masks''' were devices that allowed [[human]]s to resist the effects of poison gas when worn.  
'''Gas masks''' were devices that allowed [[human]]s to resist the effects of poison gas when worn.  



Revision as of 22:23, 1 March 2012

A soldier on Skaro wearing a gas mask. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)

Gas masks were devices that allowed humans to resist the effects of poison gas when worn.

During the Thousand Year War, both the Kaleds and the Thals wore gas masks when engaging in combat. When Harry Sullivan came across a dead combatant who was wearing one, he remarked that it seemed out of place next to the radiation detector he was also wearing. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)

In 1941, a plague caused by the Chula nanogenes, made anyone infected grow a gas mask for a face. (DW: The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances) In 2009 gas masks were used by UNIT during the Sontaran attack on Earth. (DW: The Poison Sky)