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 and served a full career

and served a full career as a senior staff officer

the left sideplate of the frame can be swung back on a hinge to give access to the gun's internal parts for oiling or cleaning

It has an all brass ribbed hilt

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 and served a full careerOriginal 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