By Floyd R. Tubbs

Perhaps the main simply famous army helmet of the twentieth century is the German Stahlhel. within the revised and extended version of this vintage, Floyd R. Tubbs and Robert w. Clawson establish and classify the Stahlhelm and relate its heritage, designs, positive aspects, and uses.

No unmarried kingdom has produced any such wide array of helmets as did Germany within the early a part of the final century, from civil protection to fireside and police forces to airborne forces. although in response to an identical thought, each one version, layout, and version was once developed with a particular goal, with the shapes for the helmets differing, the metals occuring in numerous weights, and the strengths and characteristics and the liners being specific to every category.

As the one ebook at the German wrestle helmet at the moment in print, this version, with its specified drawings and illustrative photos, will entice the collector in addition to the army historian.

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For a review of the aid program in South Vietnam, see John D. Montgomery, Tire Politics of Foreign Aid (New York : Frederick A . Praeger, 1962), pp. 224- 32. 16 The French Legacy in Indochina, 1945- 1960 cast statio ns throughout South Vietnam . S. Info rmatio n Service was already broadcasting the Voice·of America to North Vietnam fro m its station in the Philippines, the American ambassador deferred building a high-powered transmitter for broadcasting to North Vietnam until after the domestic network was completed .

Map 1) Some $27 million was to come fro m a State Department-administered Asian Economic Develo pment Fund and $3 million fro m the Department of Defense . The Internatio nal Cooperation Administration, the age ncy that operated foreign assistance programs for the State Department, was to oversee the installation of the project. Unacquainted with communications requirements or the env ironment in Southeast Asia, the International Cooperatio n Administration negotiated a contrac t based on a vag ue pro posal with two American co mpanies, Page Communications Engineers and Hyco n Eastern Company, to do an eng ineering survey for the regional system .

S. Army, Pacific, General Isaac D. White, asked the Army's Chief of Staff, General George H . Decker, to assign a signal company to the Pacific to install communications for a task force headquarters in Southeast Asia should SEATO operatio ns plans be invoked . General Decker responded that a strictl y enforced ceiling o n the size of the Army and commitment of the strategic reserve to other areas of the world ruled o ut even such a small reinforcement in the Pacific. In the canon of world wide American strategic prio rities South Vietnam seemed destined to remain a minor front of the Cold WaL ' Early Contingency Plans merican military assistance in Southeast Asia began at a time when the A United States was preoccupied w ith a conventio nal war in Korea and was resisting the Communists by French proxy in Indochina.

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