This helmet is from a man who fought in the Vietnam War. My father bought it in Portobello market when he was 10, for £7. This object was used to protect the soldiers' heads during battle.
Once, a round pierced his metal helmet. But something - mere physics ... no deadlier danger than in Vietnam. U.S. deaths in the war peaked in 1968 with 16,592. The following year was a close ...
The Army has come a long way since the famous “Steel Pot” helmet that offered some measure of protection for millions of troops fighting their way through World War II, Korea, Vietnam ...
Brogan, 79, a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, co-wrote a book about Billy. “The Helmet” blends stories about the collector’s discovery with personal memories from his family ...
Helmets also protected valuables such as cigarettes ... and ate nearly anything they could find. Air War-Vietnam. London: Arms and Armour Press, 1978. Casey, Michael, et al.
A person dressed as a soldier wearing a combat helmet posed with attendees, including about 10 women who wore matching “Daughters of the American Revolution” T-shirts. Four Vietnam War-period ...
In his early 20s, he protested the Vietnam War and avoided conscription ... Some of Farrow’s art supplies have seen the ...
Every military piece of trash that we found became a prized possession: belt buckles, brass shells, helmet liners ... rivers are books." The Vietnam wall is a book. War is a great book that ...
The current protests sweeping college campuses nationwide against the slaughter of Palestinians by Israel with U.S. weaponry ...
A screenshot from a video shows a boy riding a motorcycle with his legs on the handlebar and wearing no helmet on a road section in Phu Yen Province, south-central Vietnam. A teenager in Phu Yen ...
A Vietnam War-era Huey parked out front of the Noble Creek Community Center in Beaumont Friday, March 29, caught the eyes of ...
Columbia protestors agree to dismantle some tents. Gaza war protest encampments spread across U.S. universities. Columbia ...