1 posted on
06/24/2016 6:20:17 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
06/24/2016 6:23:32 AM PDT by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Excellent collection of helmet pictures, but they forgot two recent ones:
3 posted on
06/24/2016 6:23:50 AM PDT by
Pollster1
(Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
To: BenLurkin
I highly encourage everyone to scroll the pics
Amazing
Still miss GoetzvonBerlichingen
Wish he was still here...right up his alley
4 posted on
06/24/2016 6:28:56 AM PDT by
wardaddy
(for Muslim wives "no" means anal)
To: BenLurkin
Wow, very cool! If I saw an enemy coming at me in one of those, I think I’d just fold...
The Horned Helmet does look pretty gay however.
5 posted on
06/24/2016 6:38:01 AM PDT by
bigbob
To: BenLurkin
This one still screams cool:
6 posted on
06/24/2016 6:40:41 AM PDT by
RandallFlagg
(Vote for your guns!)
To: BenLurkin
Noticing the eye slits in all these helmets all I could think of was how the English archers at Agincourt dispatched the dismounted and mud trapped French knights. Those slits were just wide enough for a long bodkin to get past.
8 posted on
06/24/2016 6:47:48 AM PDT by
katana
To: BenLurkin
Thanks. Many are extraordinarily beautiful.
To: BenLurkin
11 posted on
06/24/2016 6:55:55 AM PDT by
Verbosus
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To: BenLurkin
Is Hillary Clinton in there? Her hair often looks like she’s wearing a helmet.
To: BenLurkin
Wild. You can tell guys had money to spend on some of those.
15 posted on
06/24/2016 6:58:40 AM PDT by
Ketill Frostbeard
("Where you recognise evil, speak out against it, and give no truces to your enemies." ~ODIN~)
To: BenLurkin
The Frog-mouth helmet reminds me of the challenges faced by WWII pilots trying to land a Vought F4-U Corsair.
Nothing much below eye level is visible.
To: BenLurkin
This post/thread is wonderful... and one of the reasons I love FR!
17 posted on
06/24/2016 7:08:04 AM PDT by
karnage
To: BenLurkin
18 posted on
06/24/2016 7:11:15 AM PDT by
KeyLargo
To: BenLurkin
Thanks for posting. Amazing.
19 posted on
06/24/2016 7:15:11 AM PDT by
PGalt
To: BenLurkin
By the end of WWII, the German soldiers were mostly wearing
flimsy cloth caps. The American boys were wearing hard
steel helmets. I guess Hitler had spent all the money for
the war on some tunnel or the other so he would have a
secure bunker for retreat purposes.
20 posted on
06/24/2016 7:15:24 AM PDT by
Twinkie
(Cowards die a thousand deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.)
To: BenLurkin
Japanese Helmets are the Best
To: BenLurkin
After spending an hour or so, with help, putting on several layers of clothing & armor, you suddenly realize the venison you ate for breakfast was ROTTEN.
What do you do? Your crap in your armor, & pee, too. Often. I doubt you even dismount your war horse. Poor horse.
After a few days of this, you get diaper rash. It itches bad, burns like the devil, not just your butt, also your legs, but you can’t scratch.
Imagine fighting with this on in the Middle East heat. A puppy in a hot car in the Walmart parking in July lot in July is better off.
Being a knight in shining armor had its problems.
I’ll bet the lightweight, nimble archers just laughed & laughed, though far out of earshot of some very irritated knights.
28 posted on
06/24/2016 8:55:06 AM PDT by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: BenLurkin
29 posted on
06/24/2016 8:56:37 AM PDT by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: BenLurkin
Fascinating article and amazing artisanship!
30 posted on
06/24/2016 10:48:36 AM PDT by
Albion Wilde
("We can't fix a rigged system by relying on the people who rigged it." --Donald Trump, 6/7/16)
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