stahlhelm m1916 | Red Army Screaming

Posted on August 23, 2020August 29, 2020 by Erik Chipchase

The Germans may have fabricated as many as 400,000 suits of body armor in the Great War. Photographic evidence is available but not common. Usually, the armor was issued to troops exposed in the front lines or assault troops. With the holstered pistol, this German is probably a machine gunner or a Stosstruppen.

Posted on January 10, 2020January 12, 2020 by Erik Chipchase

swedebeast:

nightbringer24:

enrique262:

Irish Army in the 30′s/early WWII.

… what’s with the stahlhelms? I know that the Irish rebel groups received a lot of supplies from Germany, but that’s just weird.

I think it has to due with before the immediate military build-up of WW2, Ireland had a lot of German military surplus and bought German helmets.

Based obviously on the German M16, the Irish M27 were more commonly referred to as the “Vickers” due to the manufactures name “Vickers Ltd”.