Original U.S. WWI 3rd Army Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet by Hadfield Ltd of Sheffield WWII Bougainville and Rabaul until July

Bougainville and Rabaul until July 1944 when they moved back to Espiritu Santo

which can be seen by looking under the side flaps

This is the abbreviation for Manufacture Impériale de Châtellerault

as each empty chamber needed to be loaded one at a time

Original U.S. WWI 3rd Army Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet by Hadfield Ltd of Sheffield WWII Bougainville and Rabaul until JulyOriginal items: Only One Grouping Available. When America was drawn into the European conflict it possessed no steel helmets of its own. They looked to other nations for ideas and selected the British helmet as the most suitable. Britain supplied about half a million helmets to the Americans before production of an American version was started in the U. S. This is a fantastic, genuine Great War hand painted 3rd US Army British made helmet, complete