For nearly 20 years, the Vietnam War waged on, taking the lives of an estimated 58,200 American soldiers with it. Back home ...

Bullard of San Francisco, California developed the first hard hat, basing it on the Doughboy helmet he wore as a soldier in World War I. The helmet was made ... National Museum of American History ...

These materials have become the standard for virtually all American fire departments ... of the fire fighter's neck. Helmet design really took off after World War II. By 1979, when NFPA issued ...

Friedrich St. Florian, an Austrian American architect who designed the World War II Memorial on the Mall ... GI in full combat uniform — the double helmet, the camouflage, the rifle in his ...

World War II witnessed tremendous growth in the size of American military aviation, from about 2,500 airplanes to nearly 300,000 by the war’s end. The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era ...

It grew into a war that killed almost 60,000 American soldiers and over 3m Vietnamese civilians and soldiers. America’s performance in the two world wars allowed the country to think of itself ...