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Posted: 11/14/2019 2:40:39 PM EDT

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An interesting Vietnam helmet. WWII shell with the rim missing. WWII liner.
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90th Div helmet with a bullet hole in the rear rim I received from my ex-father in law. Supposed to have been worn by Leonard A. Staak.
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Nice Texas Oklahoma helmet!

Posted: 11/17/2019 2:04:37 PM EDT

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Here's an odd one I've had for a long while now.

Remains of the M34 liner inside.

Posted: 11/18/2019 10:45:12 AM EDT

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Here's an odd one I've had for a long while now.

Remains of the M34 liner inside.

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What’s the story with those colors?

Posted: 11/18/2019 12:22:50 PM EDT

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No idea. But the price was right so I could not pass it up.

I read somewhere it could have been a "referee" for field training exercises.

Posted: 11/22/2019 10:38:24 PM EDT

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@98kGuy

At the front has a few original items on their Black Friday sale page, not sure if you’re interested in any of it but thought I’d give you the heads up.

https://www.atthefront.com/category-s/12.htm

Posted: 11/26/2019 8:11:36 PM EDT

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Some more from my collection

Another ACH 2/44 Air Defense Artillery

A USMC LWH.

Posted: 11/26/2019 8:13:27 PM EDT

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A MICH with some shrapnel damage to it.

Another ACH. I typically do not buy them like this (newish) but the 34th is a hard one to find.

Posted: 11/26/2019 8:14:44 PM EDT

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A Navy ACH.

One of my favorite ACHs.

Posted: 11/26/2019 8:17:24 PM EDT

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A Soviet refurbed SSh-36.

A little display I had at the local Audie Murphy museum showing the history of the US military combat helmet.

Posted: 11/27/2019 11:26:36 AM EDT

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A Soviet refurbed SSh-36.
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A little display I had at the local Audie Murphy museum showing the history of the US military combat helmet.
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Local museum?

Are you near me in Greenville?

Posted: 11/27/2019 12:25:32 PM EDT

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Are you near me in Greenville?

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Hmm, the three of us must be pretty close together, I'm in Wylie, so about 40 minutes from Greenville, took the son to the Audie Murphy museum in the spring, we enjoyed it...especially the 98k sniper!

We should get together sometime....

Posted: 11/27/2019 1:07:48 PM EDT

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Hmm, the three of us must be pretty close together, I'm in Wylie, so about 40 minutes from Greenville, took the son to the Audie Murphy museum in the spring, we enjoyed it...especially the 98k sniper!

We should get together sometime....

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Local museum?

Are you near me in Greenville?

Hmm, the three of us must be pretty close together, I'm in Wylie, so about 40 minutes from Greenville, took the son to the Audie Murphy museum in the spring, we enjoyed it...especially the 98k sniper!

We should get together sometime....

We are going to have fly @Sputnik556 down so he doesn't get left out!

Posted: 11/27/2019 1:11:54 PM EDT

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Local museum?

Are you near me in Greenville?

Hmm, the three of us must be pretty close together, I'm in Wylie, so about 40 minutes from Greenville, took the son to the Audie Murphy museum in the spring, we enjoyed it...especially the 98k sniper!

We should get together sometime....

We are going to have fly @Sputnik556 down so he doesn't get left out!

That would be awesome, too bad I’m so far away. I’ll just have to live vicariously through you guys.

Posted: 11/27/2019 1:21:27 PM EDT

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Yup I live in Greenville. A lot of the stuff in the military side of the museum is on loan from me. Was supposed to be a 6 month loan but it's going on 10 years now.

Posted: 11/27/2019 1:25:15 PM EDT

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Yup I live in Greenville. A lot of the stuff in the military side of the museum is on loan from me. Was supposed to be a 6 month loan but it's going on 10 years now.

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Nice! I'm going to have to get with you in a couple months because I have some stuff to put up there as well that I am slowly finding as I unpack. I have some stuff from Majors Field, and from a local guy who was a B17 pilot in the 306th and some other odds and ends.

Posted: 12/1/2019 12:59:42 PM EDT

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Some more pics since I have no football to watch today.

Here is a camouflaged M35 German helmet that unfortunately someone dug the adler out of the concrete.

Here is an M42 I bought on ebay. It was spray painted gloss black. But under the spray paint was a nice Luftwaffe eagle and blue-gray paint.

Posted: 12/1/2019 1:04:41 PM EDT

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A US M1938 tanker helmet from the hoard of mint helmets they found in Greece in the mid 90's. The Polaroid goggles I've had since I was in high school.

Here is an nice Vietnam MP helmet I found last year at, of all places, Omaha's Surplus store in Fort Worth. It was in the bargain box of Belgian M1 clones for $10. It had been painted over as well. But I saw the green chinstrap hardware and and it got me looking. I then saw what was under the repaint.

Posted: 12/1/2019 1:15:54 PM EDT

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Some more modern goodness When we started to withdraw from Afghanistan a lot of in country helmets came up for sale which is where most of my worn, down and dirty ACH/MICHs came from. They are much harder to find now.

Some Rakassans 82nd Airborne 3/187

82nd Airborne 2/502

Posted: 12/1/2019 1:19:10 PM EDT

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Some 4th Infantry. Just a note the 4th ID only puts their patch on one side of the helmet.

82nd Airborne 2/320 FA

Another style of USMC LWH. This one has the early mesh liner while the one I showed with "Murphy" has the later pads.

Posted: 12/1/2019 1:35:06 PM EDT

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An interesting early 1960's airborne helmet. This one has the clip on style airborne straps on a late WWII shell.

The liner is the 1955 style with solid OD webbing and no eyelet on the front. It also started life as a rigger modified airborne liner.

But in 1962 Firestone took a bunch of their rigger modified liners and converted them to the WWII style "factory" made style airborne liner by putting the legs of the A frame under the liner. They then filled in the old holes with gray epoxy. No idea why they did this but it's a neat variation.

Posted: 12/2/2019 2:00:00 PM EDT

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Some more modern goodness When we started to withdraw from Afghanistan a lot of in country helmets came up for sale which is where most of my worn, down and dirty ACH/MICHs came from. They are much harder to find now.

Some Rakassans 82nd Airborne 3/187
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82nd Airborne 2/502
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Need to get you some PVS-14,s to fill thise mounts

I started unpacking some today and thought Id a couple as well.

Austrian M1 style helmet

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Canadian UN M1

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Posted: 12/2/2019 2:02:36 PM EDT

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Israeli modified M1

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French Para helmet

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Brit MK6 with riot/blast shield

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Posted: 12/2/2019 2:04:22 PM EDT

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Got this from brother in law before he retired

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And the project shelf not counting the project table in the garage!

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Posted: 12/2/2019 4:11:02 PM EDT

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Got this from brother in law before he retired
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And the project shelf not counting the project table in the garage!
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I still need to find me a nice honest used Brit helmet, WWII and modern.

Posted: 12/2/2019 4:25:04 PM EDT

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A Mk6 or 7?

Posted: 12/2/2019 6:45:07 PM EDT

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Mk7

Posted: 12/2/2019 7:00:42 PM EDT

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You and me both

Posted: 1/9/2020 12:06:04 PM EDT

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Bumping cause i've got one to add once I get some time to take some decent pics

Posted: 1/17/2020 3:49:32 AM EDT

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I love helmets and have been collecting them since I was a kid back in the ‘60s. The only photos I have handy are of Iraqi helmets that were brought back from Desert Storm in 1991. If there’s any interest I’ll post them here.

Posted: 1/17/2020 11:30:16 AM EDT

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Yes!

Posted: 1/17/2020 1:53:04 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/18/2020 2:12:09 AM EDT

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Iraqi 1991 Desert Storm Militaria

This last helmet came back from the Invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Posted: 1/19/2020 3:17:15 PM EDT

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Neat thread!

I just went to the KAF Bazaar today, and talked with one of the vendors, who has a line on old Afghan national Army helmets an such from Kandahar City.

He's got a German M1916 shell with no liner and some damage, and British "Brodie" with a thick coating of black paint, also no liner, and some old Russian pilots helmets stashed at his shop in the city.

I'm trying to get him to bring some of that stuff next week.

Posted: 1/20/2020 10:20:26 AM EDT

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Those belts are cool and not something you see too often.

Posted: 1/21/2020 8:18:42 PM EDT

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Those belts are cool and not something you see too often.

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Those belts are cool and not something you see too often.

Thanks! The Iraqi “Eagle” belts were one of the most desirable Desert Storm bringbacks and were very uncommon.

Posted: 2/16/2020 1:48:21 AM EDT

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Posted: 5/9/2020 7:40:06 PM EDT

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Bump.

Posted: 5/11/2020 10:12:42 PM EDT

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Allrighty then, here is my humble helmet hoard.
I bought them at gun shows with my dad, so back in the late 80s or early 90s.

British? Looks too clean, possible repaint.

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USGI? Not sure what era.

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German? Profile looks right.

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Modern USGI Kevlar.

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I don't know shit about helmets. Just thought they looked cool when I was younger.

Seem to be some helmet experts in here, so help is appreciated.

Posted: 5/11/2020 10:40:49 PM EDT

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Will need pics of any markings to tell exactly what you have.

The stahlhelm looking one is a Spanish Modelo Z, they’re pretty poorly made and not valuable.

Posted: 5/12/2020 11:10:09 AM EDT

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British or Canadian shell. Would be WWII era due to the lip and riveted strap loops.

US WWII helmet and a nice one at that with the OD7 straps and nice corking finish. The liner is Vietnam era.

As already stated a Spanish helmet which while not worth as much as a German shell is starting to become collectible on their own. Just find the emblem that goes on the front.

The PASGT is nice as well. I love the cover with the V sewn to it. So much harder to find the early woodland covers with patches and such on them as it was very uncommon.

Posted: 5/12/2020 3:37:57 PM EDT

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Will need pics of any markings to tell exactly what you have.

The stahlhelm looking one is a Spanish Modelo Z, they're pretty poorly made and not valuable.

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British or Canadian shell. Would be WWII era due to the lip and riveted strap loops.

US WWII helmet and a nice one at that with the OD7 straps and nice corking finish. The liner is Vietnam era.

As already stated a Spanish helmet which while not worth as much as a German shell is starting to become collectible on their own. Just find the emblem that goes on the front.

The PASGT is nice as well. I love the cover with the V sewn to it. So much harder to find the early woodland covers with patches and such on them as it was very uncommon.

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Thanks guys.

Too bad the one isn't German, but Spanish.

Posted: 5/14/2020 1:51:52 PM EDT

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I got pointed here by the other GD thread and figure I'd contribute my family heirloom.

Great uncle in WWII as a combat engineer, brought this back and gave it to my grandfather and later gave it to me in the 70s. I played in it a lot as young boy when we played war. If I had known what I had back then, I would have mothballed it earlier.

My M40:

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Posted: 5/14/2020 2:22:00 PM EDT

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This was WW2 bring back, brought home by my grandfather, he was an assistant gunner on an M1919 crew, 86th Infantry Division, “Blackhawks”. If you look closely at the third pic, you can see the original owners name “Hoffmann” written on the liner.

Posted: 5/14/2020 2:32:05 PM EDT

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This was WW2 bring back, brought home by my grandfather, he was an assistant gunner on an M1919 crew, 86th Infantry Division, “Blackhawks”. If you look closely at the third pic, you can see the original owners name “Hoffmann” written on the liner.

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I love the M1916 stahlhelm with the early tri-color decal. They are quite hard to find as most get converted to 1917, 1918 or 1933 spec.

Posted: 5/14/2020 6:18:40 PM EDT

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From what I gather this is the place to post some helmets.
Some of the German ones I come across over the years,

Another pic of the Para

And kinda a neat looking one with battle damage of some Sort

Posted: 6/4/2020 7:13:26 PM EDT

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Posted: 6/5/2020 8:21:56 AM EDT

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I’ve been eyeing a few more, but have been spending money elsewhere.

I really should grab an SSH40 since they aren’t that expensive.

Posted: 6/5/2020 8:28:58 AM EDT

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I’ve been eyeing a few more, but have been spending money elsewhere.

I really should grab an SSH40 since they aren’t that expensive.

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Couldnt let it die!!

Posted: 6/5/2020 10:03:25 AM EDT

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Me too. I need one to go with my 36.

Posted: 6/23/2020 8:25:27 PM EDT

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Interesting helmet I picked up at a museum open house at Camp Mabry a few years back. Was painted a funky green. I stripped off the funky green and this was under it. Just wish I could find out what the yellow square meant.

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