Latest find. U.S. M1 helmet liner.

Thats a nice looking "rigger" para liner you have there!!...please let me know if you ever want to sell or trade it!!.....mike

Easy Boy!!!

Thanks. I wasn't sure if it was WWII or not at first

There is an inland maker mark on it, and then there's a fire stone logo over the inland mark. I saw on one we site that inland turned approximately 75,000 of their helmets and converted them into airborne liners?


what does the rigger strap style mean?

from what i know, from the members here theres factory made airborne liners then the company rigger took already made/complete infantry liners and converted them to airborne liners, rigger modified

Your liner is NOT one of the 75.000 original modified Inland liners for AB use.
Those had the A-straps in tan OD attached under the existing suspension.

Your liner shell was initially made by Inland, and was finished by Firestone, after Inland stopped making helmet liners and concentrated on gun and vehicle parts.

After WW2 (some say late in WW2; the debate is still open), your liner was modified for AB use by adding A-Straps with separate rivets below the existing suspension.

The shell has been repainted.

Thes are not that rare....

Johan

Quit a few regular M1 liners were converted to Airborne M2 / M1C standard for "...Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers". A number of these have filtered on to the market in the past 10 years, some being passed off as "originals". Technically, these could be described as "rigger made" too because the "A" strap assemblies were added to the liners in much the same way. I'm not suggesting the liner featured here is one of those, but people should be aware that they are in circulation out there (just as there's likely to be a whole raft of repro USMC camo covers and related stuff on the market in the wake of the forthcoming "Pacific" HBO series...so brace yourselves lads!!)

i might get rid of it.