• bouh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’ve heard these were sentries armors. The sentry was exposed for obvious reasons, but very important, so they gave them armors, very heavy armors meant to deflect sniper bullets. Both French and German did that.

    The soldiers didn’t like them apparently, but they were ordered to wear it. The soldiers would remove it as soon as he could, and it was easy to do.