Original U.S. WWII 1942 M1 McCord Fixed Bale Front Seam Helmet with Rare Hawley Paper Liner Blunderbuss including the sun shade

including the sun shade

The entire gun has been completely restored with a replacement correct style trigger guard winder and under plate

The 101st Airborne Division ("Screaming Eagles") is an elite modular specialized light infantry division of the United States Army trained for air assault operations

They were the best of the best

and Italy until Dec 1943

Original U.S. WWII 1942 M1 McCord Fixed Bale Front Seam Helmet with Rare Hawley Paper Liner Blunderbuss including the sun shadeOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice early example of a genuine WWII Front Seam Fixed Bale M1 Helmet made by McCord Radiator, with an extremely rare Hawley pressed paper liner, a rare thing to see. These liners are quite delicate, and often were replaced during the war, making them very hard to find. The U. S. WWII M 1 helmet was only produced from 1941 to 1945. The first production batch resulted with over 323,510 M 1 helmets before