#adrian helmets

[thedeadofflandersfields]

La Mitraileuse, Christopher Nevinson, 1915

Nevinson was a British ambulance driver on the Western Front. He painted La Mitraileuse (French for ‘The Machine Gun’) while on leave in 1915. He later commented on this work, saying, "To me the soldier going to be dominated by the machine ... I was the first man to express this feeling on canvas."

[spockvarietyhour]

WW1 helmet provides better blast protection than modern version, study shows | CBC Radio

A study finds that France's First World War military helmets better protect against overhead shockwaves from explosions than their modern American counterparts.

So the old French helmet was better even with whatever modern technology went into the contemporary American helmet?

Yes. So, there's a lot of technology in the modern helmet, but that technology was not put in there with shockwaves in mind. So if you're talking about any other kind of protection such as protection against different bullets, like rifle rounds or handgun rounds, or against any kind of blunt impact — a fall or a hit — the modern helmet is vastly better than any of the historical ones.

[terrorland]

OH NO! ITS THE DEFEND OF THE FROGGYS! Another one of my machinegun teams! This time a couple of Vichy froggys defending one of its colonies during Operation Torch! They are using the kind of obsolete Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machinegun!!

[chubachus]

French soldiers in a trench probably somewhere on the Western Front during World War 1.

Source: University of Kentucky.

[chubachus]

French soldiers in a front line trench probably somewhere on the Western Front during World War 1.

Source: Source: University of Kentucky.

[chubachus]

French soldiers of the 92nd Infantry Regiment in a trench, 1916.

Source.