According to new research from Duke University, the best helmet to protect soldiers from shockwaves and direct impacts may be a French helmet from WWI, which outperformed its modern equivalent.

African American National Guard Soldiers of New York's 15th Infantry Regiment arrived in France in December 1917. African-American WWI 'Harlem Hell Fighters' proved their mettle, patriotism in combat ...

Verdun had served the French well as a defensive outpost in the past, but in WWI it became synonymous with insensible tactics that claimed 250,000 lives. AD BY The Daily Beast Published Mar. 19 ...

The Harlem Hellfighters of WWI in photos for Black History Month. ABC News. Video. Live. ... The 369th Infantry Regiment, ... They joined the French Army's 161st Division and began combat in April.

Courtesy Random House "The Harlem Hellfighters" is a graphic novel based on one of the most successful and least celebrated regiments to ever fight for America. “The Harlem Hellfighters” by ...

A modern helmet (left) and a French helmet (right) exposed to blasts meant to simulate an exploding artillery shell. Image: (J. O. Eynde et al., 2020/PLOS One ) New research suggests helmets used ...

Part I of a three-part series, "The Big Red One: Nearly a century of war". A few years into World War I, British and French forces were suffering. Beset by a crushing German offensive and a large ...

In 1935 French ironworker Edward William Brandt engineered the Brandt mle 27/31 mortar system which the United States studied, derived from and transmuted into the M1 81mm and M2 60mm mortar ...

Col Bouffard explained that there are three types of infantry battalions in the French Army: heavy, equipped with the Véhicule Blindé de Combat d'Infanterie (VBCI); medium, with the new Griffon ...

The remains of a World War One soldier that were found during building work in France have been laid to rest. Serjeant Henry ...

Many WWI battles took place between the French armed forces and German troops positioned on the Chemin des Dames, or “Lady’s Way,” a crest between two valleys.