Steel Pot: The Combat Helmet

Separating fact from fiction about the origin of the modern combat helmet. THE SOLDIER AND THE SOUP BOWL … The story goes like this: When World War I began in August 1914, no soldiers in any army wore helmets, since such headgear had disappeared from battlefields at the end of the Middle Ages. Thus when …

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