Here's how to install a American M17 helmet liner video part 1 and 2. SHIPPED TO "MRS. C DeSIMONE" IN MARCUS HOOK PENNA" FROM HER HUSBAND "PFC JOE . var mydate=new Date()
Welcome to the forum SR71, there's not much to go on without it's liner. Middlesex Regiment who died 25/02/1921 LADYWELL CEMETERY United Kingdom '
The Brodie helmet is a steel combat helmet designed and patented in London in 1915 by Latvian inventor John Leopold Brodie (Latvian: Leopolds Janno Braude).A modified form of it became the Helmet, Steel, Mark I in Britain and the M1917 Helmet in the US. 1st Bn. , By In total the steel cap, liner and the accoutrements such as the chinstrap weighed 2.85 pounds or 1.29 kgs. dailyinfo[2]=' 8020 Serjeant Charles POOLE "C" Coy. accross the pond,? I'm putting in a picture. Good, they are MK II lugs, so that puts it in theWW2 period. dailyinfo[19]=' 9228 Corporal George F. PARRY 2nd Bn. The A.E.F. The American P17 chinstrap bail negated the flaws of the British design. Here is a good thread with a posting describing the British manufacturer codes. U.S. M2 82nd Airborne Pathfinder Camo. Tom.Delahoyde I have had a good look at your helmet again and managed to find another one to compare,This is an American, Here is a British made helmet from the same period, look at the rim joint how clean the joint is put together, now take a look at the rim joints. Here is an image ( sorry for bad quality) There are 3 letters painted on the front i think it could be either one of these combinations: Military helmets - an introduction | Australian War Memorial http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675048436_military-helmets_assembling-helmets_dipping-into-paint-tanks_wooden-crates. Manufacturing Co - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania. Yet there is one piece of military headgear from the twentieth century which was used not just in the Second World War, but also in the Korean War, the Indochina or Vietnam War, the Iran-Iraq War, the Falklands War, the Yugoslav Wars, the First Gulf War and a range of smaller conflicts such as the Cambodian Civil War and several localized clashes in Central America and the Caribbean during the 1970s and the 1980s. WWI US ARMY AEF 6th INFANTRY DIV. BRODIE HELMET The Brodie helmet, called Helmet, steel, Mark I helmet in Britain and the M1917 Helmet in the U.S., was a steel combat helmet designed and patented in 1915 by the Briton John L. Brodie. Sign up for a new account in our community. Helmets and Headgear, Shortly after the US declaration of war in April of 1917 the US ordered around 400,000 helmets from the British for use by, the American Expeditionary Force. So.
I suppose it also is one of the images of the start of WWII for the US with forces in the Pacific wearing it while under Japanese attack at Wake Island and Pearl Harbour. The MK 1 Brodie helmets are made from original MK2 steel shells have stripped out liner, chinstrap hangers and repainted the shell in the correct WW1 wartime paint then fixed in a 100% accurate reproduction. The asbestos pad is quite safe it is only the thickness of thick paper, my only doubt is the chin strap mounts they are, riveted the British used split pins. dailyinfo[20]=' 10259 Private Charles BUCHANAN 1st Bn. Both helmets are non-magnetic. The chinstrap bails on a British Mark I and a U.S. P17 are of a completely different design. The color of paint used by both the British and American manufactures do show some similarity. plant of Ford Motor Co of Philadelphia were they were painted and assembled. dailyinfo[7]=' Lieutenant Thomas Sydney Ough DEALY Australian Flying Corps who died 07/03/1918 STONYHURST COLLEGE BURIAL GROUND United Kingdom '
Soldiers wearing the recently issued Brodie helmet on the Western Front, 1916 More details: NAM. Royal Marine Light Infantry who died 17/03/1918 BELLAVISTA OLD BRITISH CEMETERY Peru '
However, the M1 sits further back on the head than the Brodie, thus providing greater protection to the neck. Welcome to the Treasure Bunker Forum - Please feel free to join and share your knowledge, with our growing data base of collectors and historians, both new and advanced.
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Sparks Withington Co - Jackson - Michigan. The unpainted shell was dipped onto a vat of olive paint. First thing is to see if you can figure out the unit emblem on the helmet. dailyinfo[11]=' Captain Charles Edmund WOOD Mentioned in Despatches Adjt. stepback_antiques 12 years ago. I suppose your cousins in the US would call it Tommy helmet the Germans went for salad bowl. The main part of the helmet was the steel shell or cap which was produced from non-magnetic Hadfield Steel, a steel and manganese alloy similar to that which the British had begun to employ to make the Brodie helmet as early as 1916. Stahlhelm, the stages of the helmet-making process of Stahlhelms for While the basic structure of the M1 remained relatively unchanged in the years that followed, the liner went through many different designs. Vimyridge23 April , 2010 in Uniforms,Cap Badges and Insignia. Clear editor. Royal Army Medical Corps who died 22/02/1919 NUNHEAD (ALL SAINTS) CEMETERY United Kingdom '