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I recently went to a flea market and found a front seam swivel bail chrome dome as I have always wanted one. The chrome job was done a long time ago and at one time it had two almost square adhesive insignia on both sides. The inside is painted green, why I do not know. I found out two things about a chrome dome, 1. they do not photgraph well and 2. if you carry it around outside, you will be attacked by crows...they dive on anything shiney. This is probably a ROTC drill team helmet but who knows.....

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I recently went to a flea market and found a front seam swivel bail chrome dome as I have always wanted one. The chrome job was done a long time ago and at one time it had two almost square adhesive insignia on both sides. The inside is painted green, why I do not know. I found out two things about a chrome dome, 1. they do not photgraph well and 2. if you carry it around outside, you will bet attacked by crows...they dive on anything shiney. This is probably a ROTC drill team helmet but who knows.....

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OMG, that is the rarest insignia I've ever seen on a helmet. 00000PS, that's your reflection. Awkward!

 

 

509er...Gingerbread Man :lol:

 

Could be ROTC,Legion,VFW,Color/Honor Guard etc but I have one in a group from an airborne officer.I can post a picture later.I have posted it before.He was an artillery officer.There is also a custom made white leather chin cup on the helmet and in the group a camo parachute cover with old tape on it from being over the helmet(Im guessing)Im thinking this was a 50s era parade helmet for his unit then the camo cover for him when he wanted to jump it.

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OMG, that is the rarest insignia I've ever seen on a helmet. 00000PS, that's your reflection. Awkward!

You are correct, rare insignia, if I sell it I have to go with the helmet and stand by it.

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Don't know if they still use them, but chrome domes used to be worn at Paris Island by recruits as well as the other uses mentioned but they didn't have anythng on them..

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They were also worn by some Army maybe even Aif Force color guards, as late as January 1982 I drew one from Battalion HQ in the 4th of the 9th Infantry for a color guard detail for a Battalion Officers Dining -in, HQ had the chomed pots we used our own liners, can't really remember if the bails were snaped off.

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Don't know if they still use them, but chrome domes used to be worn at Paris Island by recruits as well as the other uses mentioned but they didn't have anythng on them..

 

 

Yes, but these would be Silver painted helmet liners. where they also used at San Diego at the same time ?

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Here is the one from the Airborne Artillery officers group helmet

 

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That's a good looking rig Ron!

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VolunteerArmoury

There were chrome helmets as part of an Army ceremonial uniform which included the pot, a white fourragère, ascot, pistol belt, & gloves coupled with the Army Service Dress Uniform (Class As). It's mentioned & shown in one or two of Shelby Stanton's books & Bill Emerson's books I believe. However many were worn but veteran orgs as mentioned. I wore one as part of a cadet corps color guard in the mid 90s but it was plastic.

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A little out of scope for this forum, but a Heart Ripper Outter non the less. I have a close friend of Austrian extraction, he's a few years younger than me who I've known since the Mid 80s, in fact member Bill the Patch knows him as well. Anyway in the early 80s this guy as a teenager cuts out from home and heads down to Florida from New York, he brings along somethings, one of which is a German helmet, in short time he falls in with some cool bikers who he hangs out with etc, one of the bikers takes the helmet and gets it CHROMED for him, gives it back to my friend as if it is now an inprovement, my friend thinks it COOL. After a while he gets homesick and comes home, I start to hang around with him around 1986, once over in his basement crash pad in the basement of his parents two family building they own, I see this chromed german helmet, at this early date already I am in tuned with alot of militaria to include German, I notice it is a M35 complete, liner and chinstrap in very good condition, it had a Brown chin strap so I suspected it was Luftwaffe, I ask him about it, and he tells me about his time with the bikers down in Florida, he remembers exactly what it looked like before it was Chromed, his description, Dark Blue with the Sgt Schutze eagle ( His Words :lol:) and Red and White and Black Shield, now we all know what this WAS, it was a Double Decal Luftwaffe M35, NOW IT"S GARBAGE :w00t:

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A little out of scope for this forum, but a Heart Ripper Outter non the less. I have a close friend of Austrian extraction, he's a few years younger than me who I've known since the Mid 80s, in fact member Bill the Patch knows him as well. Anyway in the early 80s this guy as a teenager cuts out from home and heads down to Florida from New York, he brings along somethings, one of which is a German helmet, in short time he falls in with some cool bikers who he hangs out with etc, one of the bikers takes the helmet and gets it CHROMED for him, gives it back to my friend as if it is now an inprovement, my friend thinks it COOL. After a while he gets homesick and comes home, I start to hang around with him around 1986, once over in his basement crash pad in the basement of his parents two family building they own, I see this chromed german helmet, at this early date already I am in tuned with alot of militaria to include German, I notice it is a M35 complete, liner and chinstrap in very good condition, it had a Brown chin strap so I suspected it was Luftwaffe, I ask him about it, and he tells me about his time with the bikers down in Florida, he remembers exactly what it looked like before it was Chromed, his description, Dark Blue with the Sgt Schutze eagle ( His Words :lol:) and Red and White and Black Shield, now we all know what this WAS, it was a Double Decal Luftwaffe M35, NOW IT"S GARBAGE :w00t:

 

 

:crybaby: :crybaby: I hate hearing stuff like that....but then as a teenager I would likely have been guilty of the same crime....a crime against history, chroming a battle helmet from WWII just because it would look cool!...

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:crybaby: :crybaby: I hate hearing stuff like that....but then as a teenager I would likely have been guilty of the same crime....a crime against history, chroming a battle helmet from WWII just because it would look cool!...

 

He did get repainted by another friend of ours in the around 1993, Blau Grau with a repro decal eagle only, but the paint job really was tenuous givin it was applied over the chrome, as I recall any kind of even the slightest heavy handling would rubb away the paint and this shinny chrome would show.

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Got an almost perfect front seam chrome dome myself. It has name pencilled in, but that's about it. Surplus store used to be full of them.

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  • 5 months later...

Would like to add this photo I found, a ROTC unit wearing Chromed M1s with the ACU and Tan Combat Boots, it would seem that the venerable M1, albeit in Chromed form is still around today, if being only worn by some ROTC units, I really can't imagine a Chromed 80s 90s, 00s Fritz helmet, can you? come to think of it has any units worn Chromed Fritzes? can they be chromed is the question.

 

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