Atticus
Well-Known Member
I got these two helmets when I was a kid. The first, I bought at an Army Navy store in Wilmington, N.C. when I was eight or nine years old...that would be 1963 or 1964. I painted the crude butterbar on the front just after I bought it.
About the same time, a local trawler dragged the second one up from the bottom of the Atlantic and her captain gave it to me. I'm thinking it is a relic from the Battle of the Atlantic which was waged just offshore of Beaufort twenty years before. I remember when I got it, it was covered with marine growth, and the straps had completely rotted out of the liner. Being a kid, I just threw the liner away and kept the steel pot.
I think they are both M1s. I think they are both swivel bale. The navy one has a front seam and the army one has a rear seam...I think. Can anyone here tell me anything more about these two gems?
AF
About the same time, a local trawler dragged the second one up from the bottom of the Atlantic and her captain gave it to me. I'm thinking it is a relic from the Battle of the Atlantic which was waged just offshore of Beaufort twenty years before. I remember when I got it, it was covered with marine growth, and the straps had completely rotted out of the liner. Being a kid, I just threw the liner away and kept the steel pot.
I think they are both M1s. I think they are both swivel bale. The navy one has a front seam and the army one has a rear seam...I think. Can anyone here tell me anything more about these two gems?
AF