Original WWII Italian Regia Marina Navy M33 Helmet with Painted City of Genoa Coat of Arms - Liner & Chinstrap German Field Equipment and more compact

and more compact

while regarded as unsuccessful mainly due to the Vulture engine

Troops that couldn't fit onto the bridge were positioned in a bombed-out house slightly upstream of the bridge

this still bears a military contractor name:

It is a cotton "whipcord weave" twill tan colored cap with red rayon piping

Original WWII Italian Regia Marina Navy M33 Helmet with Painted City of Genoa Coat of Arms - Liner & Chinstrap German Field Equipment and more compactOriginal Item: Only One Available. The M33 Helmet (Elmetto Mod. 33 in Italian) is a steel combat helmet designed in the 1930s in Italy, and was the standard combat helmet of the Regio Esercito up to World War II, and of the Esercito Italiano well into the Cold War. Designed by Nicola Leszl for the Mussolini Government, these have become extremely hard to find on the collectors market today, especially WWII examples that have not been refurbished. This