Once lost to time and rust, this M40 helmet was pulled from the battlefield and painstakingly restored. Every step reveals a ...

But even the M1 "steel pot" helmet made from manganese issued in 1942 for WWII (and remained in service until the mid-1980s) wasn't meant to be bulletproof. Its primary goal was to deflect ...

It was first developed and mass-produced in 1941, before the United States entered World War II and was the standard helmet all the way through the mid-1980s. More than 22 million were made during ...

During World War II, Earl L. McCorkle from Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, was fighting the Germans while trying to cross the Rhine River. But it was during the Battle at Remagen that he lost his helmet.

Earlier this week, Mike Licata, a WWII memorabilia collector, reunited the 101-year-old veteran with that replacement helmet. Licata’s daughter, Rachel, sent Channel 2 Action News videos and ...

Believe it or not, helmets reinforced with metal were used by the Sumerians and Akkadians as far back as 2300 B.C.E., and Mycenaean Greeks used bronze helmets (typically quite heavy) in 1700 B.C.E.