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Brodie's Steel Helmet, Type B: with the shell made from Hadfield (manganese) steel. Helmet, Steel, Mark I: introduced in Spring, 1916, a modified version of the Brodie helmet with a wholly redesigned liner and a mild steel rim to the shell. In 1917, a rubber ring or "doughnut" was added between the liner and the top of the shell, and in 1935 ...
Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II (2013). Sánchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993). Starr, Kevin. Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (Oxford University Press ...
The RAC helmets came with the same suspension and liner from the Brodie helmets and later the elasticated suspension and liner from the MkIII helmet. Many were converted to use as a Paratrooper Helmet. The Royal Armoured Corps helmet had the same shape, as did the helmets used by dispatch riders. [1]
"The American helmet was a slightly modified version of the British MkI helmet. The helmet was made of 13 percent pressed manganese steel alloy, 0.035 inch thick, and could be ruptured only by a blow of 1,600 pounds or more. The British helmet had twice the ballistic strength of the French helmet.
February 25 – Battle of Los Angeles: Over 1,400 AA shells are fired at an unidentified, slow-moving object in the skies over Los Angeles. The appearance of the object triggers an immediate wartime blackout over most of Southern California, with thousands of air raid wardens being deployed throughout the city. In total there are 6 deaths.
Los Angeles Fighter Wing (4th Air Force) Also used by Technical Training Command Now: Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX) Also: Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles. Santa Monica Municipal Airport, Santa Monica, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Santa Monica. Delivery airfield for Douglas Aircraft (C-54)
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Until the early 1940s, the standard combat helmet of the Portuguese Army was the Brodie helmet, adopted during World War I, two versions of which were in use, referred in Portuguese service as the M1916 and the M1917. In the late 1930s, it was decided to replace the M1916 and M1917 by a new modern helmet.