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...World War I, 60-80% of U.S. soldiers' wounds were caused by shell splinters and spent bullets; many a soldier could thank his tin hat for stopping such missiles. Probably many more could have been kept off casualty lists if the U.S. helmet protected the neck and sides of the head, as the German tin hat did. Yet soldiers in the U.S.'s present Army are still outfitted with the same old headgear. Last week they had hopes of better. After 23 years of brooding over the simple problem, the Army's leisurely Ordnance Department announced that...
With the possibility of a second national registration and a lowered draft age, more and more American youths are confronted with the reality of the draft. To many who enjoyed playing with cannons and tanks when an open stretch of carpet was a Hungarian plain, a tin helmet will be the realization of a childhood dream, Many others, however, will find ground training dull, uninteresting, and not even valuable as a new experience. For these, the opportunity to join the Army Flying Corps is a challenge to courage and a possibility worth serious consideration...
...tank's commander, rangy, red-haired Lieut. Colonel Frank R. Williams of the Armored Force, was sitting on a 14-inch-square leather seat, bolted to the iron deck, alongside the 75-mm. gun. His head, protected by a yellow leather crash helmet, was pressed against an oblong sponge-rubber rim which framed the eyepiece of an 18-in. telescopic gun sight. Whenever his target centered in the cross hairs of the sight, he touched an electric firing key, watched a 15-lb. high-explosive projectile rip through a framework target tank...
...explained to Egyptian reporters, bug-eyed at her jewels, "so I have installed a powerful radio receiver in a teashop near his cell." Every afternoon, the Beauty Queen dashed from court to teashop, turned on the radio full blast and sat yearning for her 35-year-old Iron Helmet Romeo...
When the British brought their fierce, bearded Sikh troops into the African campaign they found themselves up against a tough problem. Army regulations demand that every British infantryman be issued a steel helmet. But the Sikhs insist on wearing turbans, over which no steel helmet can fit. Finally, the Sikhs worked out an agreement with their British officers, accepted the helmets. Last week as they edged ahead through central Eritrea each Sikh wore a turban on his head, obediently dangled a British helmet from his haversack...