Helmets in Use - WW2 Era Armor and WW2 M1 Steel Helmet

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SAIPAN.
ORIGINAL HISTORIC WARTIME CAPTION.
TOJO LEFT HIS PHONE BEHIND -- Two Marines who are members of a communications outfit on Saipan Install a captured Japanese phone (NARA)

 

Looks like Marine on right wearing the helmet cover as a hat

 

 

[patches]

Informal Portrait in the rear, a unknown Armored Infantry Top Kick of the 4th Armd Div, Steel Pot looks mighty scuffed eh!

[doyler]

Interesting photo showing the sun helmet. Also looks like the 45 holster is darkened/dyed 

 

GUADALCANAL.

 

A U.S. Marine fighter pilot on Guadalcanal catches 40 winks while the catching is good. Other airman spend their leisure time conversing and playing cards and games while waiting for reports of Japanese bombers heading for Guadalcanal. Photograph released March 1943. (National Museum of U.S. Navy)

 

 

[Government Issue]

On 8/7/2023 at 6:21 AM, teufelhund said:

Bill Shanklin, 506th,acting in a posed picture.

 

I love going over pictures I've looked at numerous times and finding new interesting things I've overlooked. I have never noticed Bill liberated a tropical German canteen. Thanks for posting it in such high quality! 

[patches]

12 hours ago, Government Issue said:

 

I love going over pictures I've looked at numerous times and finding new interesting things I've overlooked. I have never noticed Bill liberated a tropical German canteen. Thanks for posting it in such high quality! 

Good eye, I like many members have seen this photo in books and magazines forever, and this is thee first time we noticed it. Its also important in that it shows these Afrika Korps Canteens seen continued issuance and use on other Fronts after May 1943.

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GERMANY.

 

The 69th Division, in early March, drove the Germans from dominating positions in the heart of the Siegfried Line. Answers to the soldiers' reactions to combat are as varied as the men themselves... "Cold weather was the worst part of it all," says Pvt. James B. Gray, Fayetsville, Tenn. 4 March, 1945. Near Ramscheid, Germany.

Company B, 1st Battalion, 273rd Infantry Regiment, 69th Infantry Division. (Signal Corps.)

 

 

 

 

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US Soldier with an M1 Garand in Leyte, note he also has a pipe in his hand - 1944

LIFE Magazine Archives - W. Eugene Smith Photographer

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US Jeep with two 'Nisei' Japanese-American soldiers near Naples, Italy - October 1943

LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer

 

 

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11 hours ago, doyler said:

US Jeep with two 'Nisei' Japanese-American soldiers near Naples, Italy - October 1943

LIFE Magazine Archives - George Rodger Photographer

 

 

Who's the Old Man?

[Rhscott]

9 hours ago, patches said:

Who's the Old Man?

Bn commander?  100th Bn? 

[doyler]

13 hours ago, patches said:

Who's the Old Man?

 

 

Would say its 48 year old Lt. Col. Farrant L. Turner "Old Man" 100th  Bn commander. Helmet shows rank of LTC.  He returned to the states in 1943 after 1 month in theatre for medical reasons and replaced by Major James Gillespie .

 

https://www.100thbattalion.org/history/veterans/officers/farrant-turner/

 

 

[patches]

9 hours ago, doyler said:

 

 

Would say its 48 year old Lt. Col. Farrant L. Turner "Old Man" 100th  Bn commander. Helmet shows rank of LTC.  He returned to the states in 1943 after 1 month in theatre for medical reasons and replaced by Major James Gillespie .

 

https://www.100thbattalion.org/history/veterans/officers/farrant-turner/

 

 

Thanks for th ID Doyler. I was referring to the colloquial, The Old Man IE the Commander.

[doyler]

1 hour ago, patches said:

Thanks for th ID Doyler. I was referring to the colloquial, The Old Man IE the Commander.

 

 

He was actually called the Old man by his men 

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War Correspondent William Chickering, reporting on the Bougainville Landings from a ship, note the custom stand for his typewriter - November 1943

William Henry Chickering was killed by a Japanese Kamikaze as he stood on the bridge of the USS New Mexico BB-40 in Lingayen Gulf, January 1945.

He was a war correspondent for both Time & LIFE Magazines, and had been assigned with General MacArthur since 1942.

LIFE Magazine Archives - William C Shrout Photographer

 

 

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U.S. Army Rangers at work on French invasion beach, climbing high cliff to knock out Nazi gun emplacement. Their deadly duties taken care of for the moment “Rangers” take things easy in a foxhole on D-Day. Photograph released 12 June 1944.(National Museum of U.S. Navy)

 

 

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NEW GUINEA.

Heavy machine gun crew set up quickly on the beach near Aitape, New Guinea.

Personnel are of H. Co., 124th Inf. Regt., 31st Infantry Division, L to R: Sgt. Clarence B. Moore of Booneville, Miss.,

Pfc. Doyal Brumley of Juka, Miss.

Pfc. Talmed McAully of Aleutt, Miss.

Pfc. Henry C. Layfield of Whistler, Ala.

1 August, 1944. Company H, 124th Infantry Regiment, 31st Infantry Division. (Signal Corps.)

 

 

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OKINAWA.

With a mortar squad of the 32nd Regiment, 7th Div., on Okinawa are Pfc. Guillermo Acosta, Los Angeles, Cal., and Pfc. James Barnes, Pontiac, Mich., both of whom have also participated in the assaults on Attu, Kwajalein, and Leyte. 1 April, 1945.

32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. (Signal Corps.)

 

soldier on right carrying flamethrower.

 

 

[mikie]

Once more, thank you for all the photos. I always like seeing them. I only had one Like left today so you get it

mikie

[doyler]

Slip one in for the Navy

 

40mm Gun Crew member ("Deck Talker") on the US Destroyer Escort 'USS Edsall (DE-129) ca.1943. Sailor with a USN Mk II talker helmet poses in a twin 40mm Bofors mount gun tub on the Destroyer Escort USS Edsall DE-129 in the Caribbean - 1943

 

 

[mikie]

14 hours ago, doyler said:

Slip one in for the Navy

 

40mm Gun Crew member ("Deck Talker") on the US Destroyer Escort 'USS Edsall (DE-129) ca.1943. Sailor with a USN Mk II talker helmet poses in a twin 40mm Bofors mount gun tub on the Destroyer Escort USS Edsall DE-129 in the Caribbean - 1943

 

 

I used to have one of those helmets ages ago.  I sold it along with most of my first collection to finance my move to California way back in 1982. It was a wise move on my part, no regrets, but sure wish I could have kept some of my stuff. 
mikie

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ITALY.

Pvt. Anthony Bellisola, Leyden St., Medford, Mass., receiving coffee from a member of the American Red Cross.
Barbarolo area, Italy. 11 December, 1944. A Battery, 175th Field Artillery Battalion, 34th Infantry Division. (Signal Corps.)

 

 

[patches]

3 hours ago, doyler said:

ITALY.

Pvt. Anthony Bellisola, Leyden St., Medford, Mass., receiving coffee from a member of the American Red Cross.
Barbarolo area, Italy. 11 December, 1944. A Battery, 175th Field Artillery Battalion, 34th Infantry Division. (Signal Corps.)

 

 

The Red Cross girl, she's wearing the Red Bull patch we see, this habit, thought it nly stated during the Vietnam War with the Red Cross Donut Dollies

[mikie]

4 hours ago, doyler said:

ITALY.

Pvt. Anthony Bellisola, Leyden St., Medford, Mass., receiving coffee from a member of the American Red Cross.
Barbarolo area, Italy. 11 December, 1944. A Battery, 175th Field Artillery Battalion, 34th Infantry Division. (Signal Corps.)

 

 

Always good to see Red Cross stuff. I’m a late bloomer, but a few years ago I decided to follow my Dad’s good example and started giving blood at the Red Cross. I just got my 2 gallon pin. Everyone should check out giving if you can. It’s an important cause. It doesn’t hurt much and they give you snacks when it’s over! And sometimes a T-shirt! 
mikie

[cargopusher]

Lt. Colonel Charles W. Kouns, CO 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Jumped on Sicily in July 1943 and taken prisoner. Some of his wartime experience is described in Birth of a Regiment by Frank van Lunteren.

 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173026304/charles-wilmarth-kouns

 

 

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US Soldier with a Japanese bayonet on New Guinea, note he has a M1928A1 SMG - 1943

LIFE Magazine Archives - George Strock Photographer