Visit us anytime at https://www.asbestosclaims.law/. In today's episode, we go back to August of 1940 during the middle of World War II.
Infamous asbestos company Johns Manville loses all contact with its plant in Belgium as it is overtaken by Nazis. The only American citizen employed there was able to escape to Paris by the skin of their teeth.
Asbestos was CRITICAL to the war effort. Germany used it in the V2 rockets that bombed London, among many other uses.
Meanwhile, asbestos clothing had become standard in fire departments back in the United States as well as in Japan. That made sense given its resilience to heat, minus the whole slowly killing you thing.
On Asbestos Rewind, we look back at the history of asbestos and how humans have used it throughout history. Join asbestos attorney Justinian Lane on this series, and be sure to visit http://www.AsbestosClaims.law for access to our massive free database of asbestos-related information, including trusts, how to file a claim, and the latest asbestos medical news.
