Original U.S. WWI 80th Infantry Division, Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” Japanese Navy Both of the early chinstrap

Both of the early chinstrap retaining bales are intact

With the German surrender in Italy

KLEINER FEDLZUG FRANKREICH and many others

marked STG 44 and dated 1945

and we have not been able to link these markings to a maker

Original U.S. WWI 80th Infantry Division, Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” Japanese Navy Both of the early chinstrapOriginal 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