Hello friends,I have been pretty delinquent in posting over the past year or so. The reason for my absence is that I have been writing a book. It will be available on Amazon starting in August of 2006. But I also have it free, and in its en…
Meant primarially for beginners and experienced novices (like myself) this blog is an informal, sometimes satiric, exploration of the steel combat helmet and its role in identifying, inspiring, and protecting the G.I.s of various nations ov…
I've been trying to get an idea of the overlap of front-line service of the M1 and the PASGT, and I'm finding that it was significant.Below is a shot of US troops on Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury in October of 1983. Soldiers on the l…
Fellow collector Kevin Chang put together this really nice graphic comparison of all of the Warsaw Pact countries of the Cold War era (note that Albania and Yugoslavia were not members of the Warsaw Pact). Click on the photo for a larger vi…
Meant primarially for beginners and experienced novices (like myself) this blog is an informal, sometimes satiric, exploration of the steel combat helmet and its role in identifying, inspiring, and protecting the G.I.s of various nations ov…
An American icon (a repost of a classic helmet) (disclaimer: There's a lot more that I don't know about M1 helmets, than I do know about M1 helmets.) "...Beyond this, the stamp had little meaning to collectors or any effect on perceived val…
In the post- WWII era, France adopted several helmets, none of which were found to be suitable to the French. They used cast-off M1s from the United States, the odd m. 41 Jeanne d' Arc (DeGualle) helmet, and the gererally unpopular m.51 whi…
Meant primarially for beginners and experienced novices (like myself) this blog is an informal, sometimes satiric, exploration of the steel combat helmet and its role in identifying, inspiring, and protecting the G.I.s of various nations ov…
You wore both the M1 as well as the new PASGT helmets during your career; how do you compare one to the other in comfort, versatility, practicality, and protection? Which helmet did your prefer? Yes, I wore both. I much preferred the PASGT
Meant primarially for beginners and experienced novices (like myself) this blog is an informal, sometimes satiric, exploration of the steel combat helmet and its role in identifying, inspiring, and protecting the G.I.s of various nations ov…
Meant primarially for beginners and experienced novices (like myself) this blog is an informal, sometimes satiric, exploration of the steel combat helmet and its role in identifying, inspiring, and protecting the G.I.s of various nations ov…
Like manySchiffer books, it is beautiful, and ultimately disappointing. The book profiles, in loving detail, fixed-bail McCord and Schlueter helmets of World War II. That is the first disappointment, it does not cover flexible-bail helmets.…