Original U.S. WWI 80th Infantry Division, Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets 333rd and 410th Bomb Squadrons

333rd and 410th Bomb Squadrons

measuring 31 inches wide

It has an all brass ribbed hilt

Collar to shoulder: 10”Shoulder to sleeve: 25”Shoulder to shoulder:17”Chest width: 18”Waist width: 18”Hip width: 24

As produced by Whitney for the Navy on a July 1861 contract

Original U.S. WWI 80th Infantry Division, Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” Category_MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets 333rd and 410th Bomb SquadronsOriginal Item: Only One Available. When America was drawn into the European conflict it possessed no steel helmets of its own. They looked to other nations for ideas and selected the British helmet as the most suitable. Britain supplied about half a million helmets to the Americans before production of an American version was started in the U. S. This is a fantastic, genuine Great War hand painted 80th Infantry Division Field Artillery British made