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Originally Posted by Victrix
Many thanks for that! Bashford Dean must have been a remarkable man.  |
"Bashie's" academic training and the bulk of his published writings were in the natural sciences , fishes in particular. But enough of an expert on armor to have received the rank of major from the US Army during the First World War, assigned to the task of designing a more practical trench helmet for American forces than the types used by the British and French armies. The result was regarded as admirable, but was never officially adopted due to bureaucratic catfights, technical and fiscal objections in the area of production feasibility and costs, and the uncomfortable resemblance of the helmet to the Stahlhelm adopted by the Germans. (which, of course, was and still is an excellent design traceable back to the sallet of the Gothic period).