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Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 4 days 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

Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 4 days ago
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Ford Motor Company - American Helmet Model No. 8 - American, Philadelphia - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  • The Wandering M4dTsar@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    R u sure this one isn’t involved the user to mastering swordsmanship or something similar?

    • Quilotoa@lemmy.caOP
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      The design was taken from knights’ helmets.

  • Amuletta@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    That must have been like wearing an oven after a few hours.

  • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    4 days ago

    This thing looks like it was designed and manufactured in 1518 not 1918.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    “Steel, leather, felt, canvas, bronze, pigment, sawdust”

    So exactly like an F150.

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    4 days ago

    Very storm trooper

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  • Lawnman23@piefed.social
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    Ford also manufactured the B-24 Liberator for the Army during the war.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run

  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
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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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