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

Tatsukuma Ueno, 97, a former Japanese army pilot, took the stage at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo to tell his story 80 years after the end of World War II.

This helmet survived a war but nearly lost the battle with time. Covered in deep rust and flaking metal, it was carefully preserved and restored to honor its past.