British Soldiers Couldn't Believe Their "Useless" Steel Helmets... Were Being Used As Cookware

It is May 1940. The British Expeditionary Force is shattered, retreating toward the sea at Dunkirk.
For Private Arthur Shaw and the men of his platoon, survival is measured in minutes. They are cold, hunted, and exhausted. Their primary piece of equipment is the Mark I Brodie helmet, a "tin lid" design from the First World War, ridiculed by the soldiers themselves as a heavy, "useless" bowl that offered no protection from the bullets of a new, faster war.
But in a flooded ditch, with a German sniper pinning them down, Corporal Alf Mulligan is about to prove that a soldier's ingenuity is more valuable than any piece of gear.
In a moment of desperate brilliance, the men turn their "useless" helmet into the one thing they need most: a kettle to boil water for a life-saving cup of tea. It is a moment of pure, civilized defiance in the middle of hell.
This act of comfort, however, comes at a terrible price.
The wisp of smoke from their helmet-fire is a beacon to a German mortar team, raining down an airburst of shrapnel. In a brutal twist of fate, the very helmet that exposed them is the only thing that can save them.
This is the incredible true story of the "Shrapnel-Stopper"—a helmet that was a kettle, a surgeon's basin, and, in one critical second, the only thing standing between a man and
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