Nevinson was a British ambulance driver on the Western Front. He painted La Mitraileuse (French for ‘The Machine Gun’) while on leave in 1915. He later commented on this work, saying, "To me the soldier going to be dominated by the machine ... I was the first man to express this feeling on canvas."

Yes. So, there's a lot of technology in the modern helmet, but that technology was not put in there with shockwaves in mind. So if you're talking about any other kind of protection such as protection against different bullets, like rifle rounds or handgun rounds, or against any kind of blunt impact — a fall or a hit — the modern helmet is vastly better than any of the historical ones.

OH NO! ITS THE DEFEND OF THE FROGGYS! Another one of my machinegun teams! This time a couple of Vichy froggys defending one of its colonies during Operation Torch! They are using the kind of obsolete Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machinegun!!

Source: University of Kentucky.

Source: Source: University of Kentucky.

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