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Sleeping Beauty Diver's Mask

1943, SOE

Diver’s rubber head piece, nose clip, and rebreather, UK (SOE), ca. 1943

Once Sleeping Beauty had carried a saboteur to an enemy warship, he needed to plant a mine and get away before it exploded. Underwater, the pilot, wearing this oxygen mask, operates unseen by enemy ships.