New research suggests helmets used in World War I protected soldiers against overhead artillery blasts just as well as modern helmets—and one, the French Adrian helmet, actually performed better.

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 WWI helmets would do little if anything to protect against the shockwaves from roadside bombs or improvised explosive devices that often come from the ground upward or along a horizontal path.

"That was very surprising, actually," says Joost Op 't Eynde, the Belgian bioengineering doctoral candidate at Duke who led the research project comparing three WWI-vintage helmets with the ACH model.

She said: "Hats off to the person, who wants to obviously remain anonymous, ... The plaques commemorate 163 people from the Chatham area who died in WW1 and each weigh 93kg.

SEVILLE, Spain, May 27 (Reuters) - A Spanish hatmaker warned that a 40-year tradition of supplying felt hats to Orthodox Jews in the U.S. risked becoming a casualty in President Donald Trump's ...

The massive military parade drew tanks and thousands of soldiers and coincided with nationwide protests against Trump and his policies.

Trump’s trade war endangering US supply of Orthodox Jewish hats from 140-year old factory. A Spanish hatmaker has said higher EU tariffs would be "dramatic" for their business.

Century old item in memory of William McSkinnon Thorburn AMONGST the rubble and timber of their back room, Coromandel Street residents Glen and Amy Maskill came across an important piece of ...

WWI pictures unearthed: The mystery of the 'man' in the lemon squeezer hat. In the first three, they simply seem to be military comrades – but the fourth hints at a more exciting relationship.

A pyramid of WWI German Pickelhaube helmets outside of Grand Central Terminal, 1919. ... Marking the end of Victory Way stood a massive pyramid of 85,000 stacked enemy helmets.

Medicine Hat police say they've recovered two medals from the First World War that belong to an "L.B. Middleton," and they haven't been able to locate the rightful owner.