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BW Roger

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That is because the real anniversary was on August 14, 2001. 100 years after Gustav Weisskopf made a succesfull flight of 2700 mtrs with his design. BW Roger

Very often, German aircrew wore German helmets over their leather leather or fabric flight helmets. This one came from an HE111. Often they removed the innerliner and only used the steel shell. When you see the Ww2 movie of the Memphis bell, you can see that the pilot is wearing an American m1 pot over his flighthelmet. Later, Alied aircrews wore specially designed Flakhelmets. Might post a few if interested. Bought one last year, of Ww2 vintage that was used in Iraq by tankcrew, so I guess the Aericans sold their WW2 surplus to Iraq.

Another battle helmet, this one from the Berlin Don’t know if the original owner survived. Have an american one from Normandy also. was in the sea for 60 years. Horrible condition but historicly of great value (to me). Most here at home think I am collecting junk.

Nobody else here has some helmets to show? Think I am going to post some English ones tomorrow. This one came from an aircraft wreck. And no, the crew survived. Helmets like this are maybe not so good looking, but they were used in the wars real battle. So in many ways they are telling a much more inportant story than the better looking ones.

A Ww1 M-18 helmet used by the SA

Very weathered paratroopershelmet, had to replace one of the bolts