gap Posted August 11, 2020 Share #1 Posted August 11, 2020 I have a late ww2 liner painted white. Under the white is silver paint. Nothing under the silver paint at all. Why would a liner be painted silver from the get go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWG Posted August 11, 2020 Share #2 Posted August 11, 2020 I have a late ww2 liner painted white. Under the white is silver paint. Nothing under the silver paint at all. Why would a liner be painted silver from the get go? Do you have some pictures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burning Hazard Posted August 11, 2020 Share #3 Posted August 11, 2020 Silver painted liners were used all over. I've read about them being used at parades, ranges, and for training. I also seen a handful of helmets + liners painted silver and gold that came out of a student theater; they were used as stage props. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmar836 Posted August 12, 2020 Share #4 Posted August 12, 2020 I have two silver liners - both USAAF training. One with gunnery school decal and the other just numbered with wing and prop stencils. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILL THE PATCH Posted August 12, 2020 Share #5 Posted August 12, 2020 Is it this one, I've had this for awhileSent from my moto g(7) play using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmd62 Posted August 12, 2020 Share #6 Posted August 12, 2020 That's pretty cool Bill! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmar836 Posted August 12, 2020 Share #7 Posted August 12, 2020 No. Mine has the horny toad decal like the one in Life magazine back during the war. I’ll get pics at some point. That looks a little like a 70s rock album! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpstout Posted August 12, 2020 Share #8 Posted August 12, 2020 Las Vegas Air Corps Gunnery School - original WWII. Nice, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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manayunkman Posted August 12, 2020 Share #10 Posted August 12, 2020 Awesome decals on the gunnery school liners. I wish every cloud had a silver liner like those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap Camouflage Pattern I Posted August 13, 2020 Share #11 Posted August 13, 2020 Very cool liners, as to why gap's liner has no factory OD under the silver paint, two possibilities spring to mind. I have seen a good number of liners with no paint at all in photos of US soldiers in the 1950s and ARVN in the 1960s, presumably some batches of liners had substandard paint adhesion. The other possibility is if the liner was used for a ceremonial purpose, if the liner had already seen some use and suffered damage to the original paint then removing it before painting it silver would give it a cleaner appearance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alex Boban Posted August 14, 2020 Share #13 Posted August 14, 2020 Most WWII-era silver painted liners I've encountered were from AAF gunnery schools. I read somewhere (but can't remember where) that these silver liner were painted when gunners graduated from basic training and were able to move up to turret training. The liner below was issued with the factory OD, then painted bright yellow, and later painted silver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmar836 Posted August 14, 2020 Share #14 Posted August 14, 2020 That's a cool one. The flexible gunnery course was only about 3 weeks IIRC so I'm not sure if it that accelerated timeline would allow for or involve that kind of helmet liner modification. If it did, and they belonged to each student, they would not likely enter the theater painted like that. If so, wouldn't there would be many more of them in circulation considering the hundreds of thousands of graduates? I always assumed they stayed at the various training bases and were just checked out by the students. Interesting discussion. Ideas? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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