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U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamination Station, Intersection of Eighth Street, Avenue E & Central Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamin...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack and was part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during W... More

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in a decontamination outfit

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Temporary Decontamination Center, Corner of Avenue D & Seventh Street, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Temporary Decontamination Center, Corne...

Significance: It was built as part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during WWII, built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack. This building could be considered, like the other types of ... More

Civilian protection. Members of the New York defense forces turn out for drill and demonstration with their rolling equipment. From left to right: nurses' aides and medical personnel, rescue squad, decontamination squad, demolition and clearance crews

Civilian protection. Members of the New York defense forces turn out f...

Public domain image of personnel, army, group of people in uniform, parade, historic place, military activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Member of a decontamination squad after a raid in which blister gas has been used. Unless chemically neutralized, the spots of this liquid vesicant will continue to give off a burning vapor for days. Specially treated clothing is needed to protect the men too. Note that the workers are covered from head to toe

Civilian protection. Member of a decontamination squad after a raid in...

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Join now The office of civilian defense needs you for decontamination squads / / John McCrady.

Join now The office of civilian defense needs you for decontamination ...

Poster encouraging civilians to join civil defense squads, showing a man in uniform spraying a building. Date stamped on recto: Jan 21 '43. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamination Station, Intersection of Eighth Street, Avenue E & Central Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamin...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack and was part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during W... More

Decontamination activity. A.R.P. (air raid precaution) in Jerusalem. A.R.P. demonstration by Major A.D. Spark on the Y.M.C.A. sports field in Jerusalem

Decontamination activity. A.R.P. (air raid precaution) in Jerusalem. A...

Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamination Station, Intersection of Eighth Street, Avenue E & Central Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamin...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack and was part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during W... More

Civilian protection. Member of a decontamination squad after a raid in which blister gas has been used. Unless chemically neutralized, the spots of this liquid vesicant will continue to give off a burning vapor for days. Specially treated clothing is needed to protect the men too. Note that the workers are covered from head to toe

Civilian protection. Member of a decontamination squad after a raid in...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamination Station, Intersection of Eighth Street, Avenue E & Central Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamin...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack and was part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during W... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamination Station, Intersection of Eighth Street, Avenue E & Central Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamin...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack and was part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during W... More

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Sign posted by the decontamination squad during a gas drill demonstration

Daniel Field, Georgia. Air Service Command. Sign posted by the deconta...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of migrant workers, 1930s car, Great Depression, Dust Bowl refugees, poverty, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, First Aid & Decontamination Building, Wasp Boulevard near Ranger Loop, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, First Aid & Decontamination Building, W...

Significance: It is associated with the build up of naval facilities on Ford Island in the early 1940s. It is a unique building type at the installation. Facility No. 166 is in a grouping of buildings that were... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, First Aid & Decontamination Building, Wasp Boulevard near Ranger Loop, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, First Aid & Decontamination Building, W...

Significance: It is associated with the build up of naval facilities on Ford Island in the early 1940s. It is a unique building type at the installation. Facility No. 166 is in a grouping of buildings that were... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, First Aid & Decontamination Building, Wasp Boulevard near Ranger Loop, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, First Aid & Decontamination Building, W...

Significance: It is associated with the build up of naval facilities on Ford Island in the early 1940s. It is a unique building type at the installation. Facility No. 166 is in a grouping of buildings that were... More

Civilian protection. Every square inch of the body must be well protected by impermeable or impregnated clothing to enable the decontamination worker to closely approach liquid vesicant gas. Later, the clothing must be carefully removed by a helper himself dressed in gas-proof clothing and decontaminated

Civilian protection. Every square inch of the body must be well protec...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Every square inch of the body must be well protected by impermeable or impregnated clothing to enable the decontamination worker to closely appraoch liquid vesicant gas. Later, the clothing must be carefully removed by a helper himself dressed in gasproof clothing and decontaminated

Civilian protection. Every square inch of the body must be well protec...

Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Completely enclosed, just like deep sea divers, to make certain that none of the blistering gas vapors will seep through to their skin, these members of a decontamination squad are spreading a mixture of sand and chloride of lime to neutralize an area which has been attacked with a persistent gas

Civilian protection. Completely enclosed, just like deep sea divers, t...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Temporary Decontamination Center, Corner of Avenue D & Seventh Street, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Temporary Decontamination Center, Corne...

Significance: It was built as part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during WWII, built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack. This building could be considered, like the other types of ... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamination Station, Intersection of Eighth Street, Avenue E & Central Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamin...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack and was part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during W... More

Gas decontamination squad practicing in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Gas decontamination squad practicing in the USSR (Union of Soviet Soci...

Public domain photograph of USSR in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, First Aid & Decontamination Building, Wasp Boulevard near Ranger Loop, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, First Aid & Decontamination Building, W...

Significance: It is associated with the build up of naval facilities on Ford Island in the early 1940s. It is a unique building type at the installation. Facility No. 166 is in a grouping of buildings that were... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamination Station, Intersection of Eighth Street, Avenue E & Central Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamin...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack and was part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during W... More

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve center of civilian defense communications. A message center keeps constantly in touch with developments throughout the city by telephone and radio. A vital part of civilian defense work is the proper handling of trouble calls, assignment of crews to troubled areas and the passing on of orders for prompt action. One operator is connected with the first aid center, one with the decontamination squad, one with the disaster unit and another with the emergency service division. Girls shown at work in the message center of central alarm system, Washington, D.C.

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve...

Picryl description: Public domain image of girl workers, child labor, working children, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

In the left foreground are four operators at telephones, one connected with the first aid center, one with the decontamination squads, one with the disaster units and the fourth with the emergency service division. There is a twenty-six watt transmitter and receiver to maintain communcations with units in the field. Two of the operators to the right receive calls and note information for the general public, while one operator handles both incoming and outgoing business calls. This demonstration board was set up at the huge October civilian defense show in Madison Square Garden, New York

In the left foreground are four operators at telephones, one connected...

Public domain photograph of musical performance, musicians, music, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Decontamination activity. A.R.P. (air raid precaution) in Jerusalem. A.R.P. demonstration by Major A.D. Spark on the Y.M.C.A. sports field in Jerusalem

Decontamination activity. A.R.P. (air raid precaution) in Jerusalem. A...

Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Civilian protection. Member of a decontamination squad after a raid in which blister gas has been used. Unless chemically neutralized, the spots of this liquid vesicant will continue to give off a burning vapor for days. Specially treated clothing is needed to protect the men too. Note that the workers are covered from head to toe

Civilian protection. Member of a decontamination squad after a raid in...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Greek-American soldier, formerly a material handler at the General Electric Company plant at Pittsburgh. Both parents were born in Greece; father came to the United States in 1906, mother in 1921. He was born in this country and has been in the army five months. Lihas in gas mask and decontamination suit

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Constantine P. Lihas, a twenty-one year old Gr...

Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve center of Civilian Defense communications. A message center keeps constantly in touch with developments throughout the city by telephone and radio. A vital part of civilian defense work is the proper handling of trouble calls, assignment of crews to troubled areas and the passing on of orders for prompt action. One operator is connected with the first aid center, one with the decontamination squad, one with the disaster unit and another with the emergency service division. Girls shown at work in the message center of central alarm system, Washington, D.C.

Office of Civilian Defense worker help protect nation's capital. Nerve...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamination Station, Intersection of Eighth Street, Avenue E & Central Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamin...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack and was part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during W... More

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamination Station, Intersection of Eighth Street, Avenue E & Central Avenue, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Type "B" Casualty Dressing & Decontamin...

Significance: It is located within the Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark. It was built in response to the December 7, 1941 attack and was part of the great expansion of facilities at Pearl Harbor during W... More