Original U.S. WWI 1917 Model 2 Experimental Helmet by Ford Motor Company with Partial Liner British Documents & Books It was here that the

It was here that the Regiment received its first casualties of the war

from 1941 to 1945

Joseph Hannis

It is marked BRESCIA over an 1885 date on the barrel

Original U.S. WWI 1917 Model 2 Experimental Helmet by Ford Motor Company with Partial Liner British Documents & Books It was here that theOriginal Item: Only One Available. When the United States entered World War I in 1917 it had no steel helmet. The American military turned to Dr. Bashford Dean, an American zoologist and armor expert who served on the board at both the New York Natural History Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to help design a helmet for the soldiers heading to France. One of the first so called "experimental" patterns was the Model 2. Designed in June of