This remarkable photo, taken in 1918, shows employees of the New York Central Railroad at a celebration in Victory Way, showing off a pyramid of recovered German helmets in front of Grand Central ...

The Army has pushed back on a study purporting to show that World War I "tinpot" helmets were just as good or, in some cases, better than the service's current Advanced Combat Helmet in mitigating the ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - When the war to end all wars erupted in August 1914, the armies of Europe were stunned by the harrowing casualties inflicted by landmark advances in weaponry. The machine gun ...

Five avenues west of the United Nations is Park Avenue, home to Grand Central Terminal and a slew of corporate headquarters. For one week at the end of April 1919, the stretch between 45th and 50th ...

On a quiet forest edge that once held a strategic position, detectorists uncover a story spanning two world wars: first a ...

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Before you start collecting, take note: What’s hot: Experimental helmets commissioned by the US military; American and German helmets painted with camouflage; groupings of personal items of soldiers ...

According to new research from Duke University, the best helmet to protect soldiers from direct blasts may be more than 100 years old. The researchers, from Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, tested ...

When U.S. soldiers received new helmets in the early 1980s, the reaction was dismay. The Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT) was supposed to offer better protection than the M1 helmet ...

A French WWI helmet outperformed its modern-day high-tech equivalents in protecting the brain from blast waves. Although helmet technology has evolved considerably in the intervening century since ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The various Warsaw Pact countries produced similar equipment without violating trademark. Throughout the Cold War it was typically said that the army of the Deutsche ...