Why are real USN helmets difficult to find?

[Screamingeagles101]

Not hard to find at all haha, just sold the blue one though

 

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[sigsaye]

I do not know if this one would be Hollywood caliber but this is one of my ww2 Navy Chaplain helmets with Minimal wear.

This would have been a Single Person Use helmet. Im sure Chaps kept this in his stateroom or office, not tossed in someblocker or deck rack like all the rest.

Marty

[ArchangelDM]

Here is mine

 

Being worn In theatre

[644td]

Dean I never get tired of seeing this helmet.

 

Marty

[ArchangelDM]

Dean I never get tired of seeing this helmet.

 

Marty

Thanks Marty

Its that net that I fall in love with every time I see it

 

- Dean

[Bugme]

I have this Vietnam era navy Chaplains helmet. It was probably reissued to other Chaplains with rotation changes but it is pretty beat up.

 

Marty

Well, ya know I already like this one Marty!

[ArchangelDM]

Well, ya know I already like this one Marty!

+1

 

Great lid Marty

[kammo-man]

Here’s 3 in my rusty helmet garage stash.

Owen

 

 

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[BILL THE PATCH]

Here’s 3 in my rusty helmet garage stash.

Owen

 

 

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Nice picture kammo, I like the not to rusty captains helmet.

 

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[644td]

Well, ya know I already like this one Marty!

+1

Great lid Marty

Thanks guys.

 

Marty

[Burning Hazard]

Question for our vets, were there any instances of putting paint primer on the M1 helmet to prevent/reduce rusting? I remember someone mentioning paint primers being used on ships, then eventually being scraped off due to toxicity.

 

Pat

[hink441]

This one is not the red lead primer, but it is yellow zinc chromate primer.

 

[sigsaye]

Question for our vets, were there any instances of putting paint primer on the M1 helmet to prevent/reduce rusting? I remember someone mentioning paint primers being used on ships, then eventually being scraped off due to toxicity.

 

Pat

. Well, yes. They were usually sanded/ wire brushed first ( thats why so many Navy helmets are smooth). Then primed with what ever primer was in use at the time (, Red Lead, White Lead, Zink Chromate, which was actually for aluminum, so didnt really work that well, or this green stuff from the 1990s that I dont recall the name of. Then, they got a coat of paint. They were not always completely stripped, often, just the fins and rusty spots got cleaned up, then primed and painted.

 

If we bothered to paint new ones right out of the box, no, we didnt bother to prime them, just paint over the factory OD.