Original U.S. WWI 1st Infantry Division Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “The Big Red One” Vickers MMG 6-inch steel blades with a

6-inch steel blades with a plain metal cross guard and wooden handles riveted to the tang

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Bismarck attempted to isolate France diplomatically by befriending Austria-Hungary

"brd" is the German three-letter code for equipment manufacture HAGENUK (Hanseatische Apparatebaugesellschaft ehemals Neufeldt und Kuhnke)

Original U.S. WWI 1st Infantry Division Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “The Big Red One” Vickers MMG 6-inch steel blades with aOriginal 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 1st Infantry Division British made helmet, complete