Original U.S. WWII Army M1 Swivel Bale Helmet with Painted Lieutenant Rank and Invasion Bar Display Guns & Parts Sets Mere Eglise on D-Day and

Mere Eglise on D-Day and at Nijmegen in the Netherlands

The lower end of the buttstock has a repair

and does not have any repairs that we can see

The criteria for receiving aid were both racial and political

It bears serial number 6177 / b on the barrel jacket

Original U.S. WWII Army M1 Swivel Bale Helmet with Painted Lieutenant Rank and Invasion Bar Display Guns & Parts Sets Mere Eglise on D-Day andOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice example of a WWII M1 Helmet, complete with Seaman Paper Company liner. Helmet is of the later front seam, swivel bale variety, with an obfuscated heat lot number (a number 1 and a letter D is readable only). The helmet dates to the Fall of 1944. Helmet is fitted with Olive Drab Chinstraps with painted steel buckle (note the field repaired male end of the buckle!). The shell is painted with a 1st