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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Ford Motor Company once made helmets designed for the army.

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Ford Motor Company once made helmets designed for the army.

www.metmuseum.org

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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

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Ford Motor Company - American Helmet Model No. 8 - American, Philadelphia - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

This helmet, and others in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, were designed by Bashford Dean between 1917 and 1918. Model No. 8 has a visor to...

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Good luck taking a round to the head even with this thing on.
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  It could stop shrapnel from shells. Artillery was responsible for the majority of casualties in WWI, not guns.

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