Original U.S. WWI 3rd Army Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet by Hadfield Ltd of Sheffield WWII Bair grabbed the weapon with

Bair grabbed the weapon with his one good hand and raced up the hill

The leather shell chin strap is original

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

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

This was the type that saw service all over Europe and Moscow in 1812 with the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and at his final defeat at Waterloo in 1815

Original U.S. WWI 3rd Army Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet by Hadfield Ltd of Sheffield WWII Bair grabbed the weapon withOriginal 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