Original WWII U.S. Navy Damage Control Officer’s Painted Front Seam Swivel Bale Schlueter M1 Helmet Complete with Liner British Documents & Books and was refinished with black

and was refinished with black paint at some point

which is apparently not uncommon for these

which has been turned into a wonderful named example of Russian Front Trench art

among numerous others

the former commander of the Verfügungstruppe SS Regiment Deutschland

Original WWII U.S. Navy Damage Control Officer’s Painted Front Seam Swivel Bale Schlueter M1 Helmet Complete with Liner British Documents & Books and was refinished with blackOriginal Item: One of a Kind. This is a unique example of a WWII M1 Helmet with markings to a U. S. Navy Damage Control Officer. This example is in very good condition considering signs of honest wear from use, and decades of storage wear, and appears to have been together since the war! The Helmet features a shell painted in standard WWII U. S. Navy Blue, which appears to be covering a layer of red paint underneath, which denotes Damage Control