The next Beaton came to the helmet in peacetime, leaving his Regina home in the early morning to fly to Ottawa, driving past the snow covered birch trees to the War Museum, to reclaim a piece of ...

He was led to Pte. George Johnston, a member of the North Shore Regiment in the Second World War. This week, after a three-day search, the soldier and his helmet were reunited for the first time ...

CTV Atlantic: WWII vet reunited with military helm Learn how a 93-year-old veteran was reunited with the helmet he wore during the Second World War.

More than 75 years had passed since Second World War veteran Kenneth Douglas last held his service helmet in his hands. Through the kindness of strangers in eastern Ontario, the 97-year-old ...

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.

Dominique Lemaire always felt a heaviness when he looked at the leather helmet from the Second World War. It came to his father in the days when planes, men and bombs fell from the sky.

The iconic helmet worn by veterans of generations past is the M1. It was first developed and mass-produced in 1941, before the United States entered World War II and was the standard helmet all ...

were issued obsolete weapons and property - metal helmets of the Second World War model and means of protection from the period of the 60-70 years of the last century. "In addition, a large part ...

This was also most true of East Germany. The history of the East German helmets actually goes back to the Second World War, when as early as 1942 the German army was looking at ways of simplifying ...

During the commemoration, the Secretary-General called the Second World War “one of the most epic struggles for freedom and liberation in history,” adding that “its cost was beyond ...