German helmet

US 82nd airborne Ike Jacket ID’ed S5885. The jacket comes with a shirt with the same laundry number and a 82nd airborne patch. The jacket has the rank of Staff Sergeant to a Infantry regiment. The jacket has a ribbon bar indicating Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign and European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal. This last ribbon comes with a spearhead and four stars indicating he partook in Husky, D-Day, Market Garden and possibly Varsity. It is decorated with the Fourragère or lanyard for France, the Netherlands and Belgium. The Ike jacket shirt would be a nice base for further research!

Textbook US M1941 field jacket in very good condition with period sewn insignia for the replacement school command. There are some light stains but they could be cleaned, but I would leave that to the buyer.

Textbook US M1 front seam swivel bale helmet with Firestone liner in very good, near mint condition.

Textbook US M1 fixed bale helmet with period painted insignia for the 88th Infantry Division. The helmet is a typical fixed bale M1 helmet with both loops intact. Externally the helmet retains up to 85% of its wartime paint including its wartime hand painted unit insignia. The US 88th Infantry division saw heavy combat in the Italian theatre and this is exactly where this helmet was left behind and later found by a collector. Very hard to find original painted US M1 helmet from a well known unit!

USAAF A-9 oxygen mask in good condition with straps and hose!

Textbook US Navy M1 front seam fixed bale helmet in untouched condition. This is a typical early to mid war US M1 helmet with a front seam and fixed bales. The helmets chinstrap has always been over the rear part of the shell as can be seen by the untouched verdigris, patina and oxidation on the shell. The helmet is complete with its original Firestone navy blue liner that was painted together with the shell. Nice and attractive US Navy M1 helmet in excellent condition!

Rare, untouched US Navy M1 fixed bale helmet with period navy markings. The shell is a typical McCord produced example with factory sewn chinstraps. The helmet has period applied Navy markings BOS’N, indicating boatswain. The bo’s’n, bos’n, or bosun, also known as a deck boss, or a qualified member of the deck department, is the most senior rate of the deck department and is responsible for the components of a ship’s hull. The boatswain supervises the other members of the ship’s deck department, and typically is not a watchstander, except on vessels with small crews. Additional duties vary depending upon ship, crew, and circumstances. Rare original US Navy helmet with period markings in untouched condition!