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Captured Helmets


Ricardo
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Hi,

 

Some helmets that caught my collection came from the United States.

 

Unfortunately they are not identified, but are certainly captured pieces.

 

Note that the SNLF troops helmet have a cut cloth chinstrap (most likely taken from soldiers killed or wounded).

 

The inscription "France 1944" of the German helmet is quite war souvenir from Normandy.

 

Regards,

 

Ricardo.

 

#1 - Japanese SNLF Troops Helmet:

 

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# 2 - Japanese IJA Type 90 Combat Helmet - Very small shrapnel (splinter of a grenade or mortar) entry point on the side and almost out in the rim. It has the japanese soldier name and several bloodstains inside:

 

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I'll take more pictures of the helmet because I not found on my computer now...

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Corpsmancollector

Amazing Ricardo, the SNLF helmet is a beauty! Would love to add one to the collection one day, they are not easy to come by!

 

Thanks for posting as always,

 

Will

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A gentle reminder that we'd like to keep this SPOILS OF WAR section limited to sharing things that we know were brought home by a particular US vet and not as a place to show our whole Japanese and TR collections even though the assumption is correct: most of that likely was brought home by a US GI.

 

Just use s little discretion.

 

thanks

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Understood, Bob!

 

I tried to separate some of my WW2 pieces to illustrate the topic in question, but I will only confine the identified parts linked to U.S. veterans.

 

Thank you!

 

Ricardo.

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