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WW2 US M1 & British Mk II Brodie Helmets Photograph
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About This Work
Above: M1 Helmet, US Army, Navy, USMC, WW2. Photograph.
Helmet Overview
Type: US M1 combat helmet, widely used by American forces from WW2 through the 1980s.
Insignia: The silver oak leaf pin on the front denotes a field-grade officer at the O-5 pay grade (Lieutenant Colonel).
Chinstrap: Fitted with an early-style leather or web chinstrap typical of mid-20th-century configurations.
Bottom: Mk II Brodie Helmet WW2 British Armed Forces. All ranks. The Brodie helmet is a steel combat helmet designed and patented in London in 1915 by Latvian inventor John Leopold Brodie (Leopolds Janno Braude). A modified form of it became the Helmet, Steel, Mark I in Britain and the M1917 Helmet in the US. Colloquially, it was called the shrapnel helmet, battle bowler, Tommy helmet, tin hat, and in the United States the doughboy helmet. It was also known as the dishpan hat, tin pan hat, pie plate, washbasin, and Kelly helmet. The Imperial German Army soldiers called it the Salatschüssel (salad bowl).
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- Archival-quality paper for superior preservation
- Archival photographic print, made to order.