Original U.S. WWI 80th Infantry Division, Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets Collar to shoulder: 10”Shoulder to

Collar to shoulder: 10”Shoulder to sleeve: 25”Shoulder to shoulder:17”Chest width: 18”Waist width: 18”Hip width: 24

measuring 31 inches wide

In its early years the regiment wore a uniform of black facings and white lace (when they wiped sweat away with their cuffs the dye stained their faces giving rise to the nickname the "Dirty Half-Hundred" where half-hundred is a play on fifty)

As produced by Whitney for the Navy on a July 1861 contract

and served a full career as a senior staff officer

Original U.S. WWI 80th Infantry Division, Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets Collar to shoulder: 10”Shoulder toOriginal Item: Only One 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 80th Infantry Division Field Artillery British made