Display your Vietnam Graffiti helmet covers

[6th.MG.BN]

That is a great cover and with the period photo. Your explanation of little fading and wear make a good point of what alot of people would argue, shouldn't be found on a period V/N worn helmet/cover. 

Thanks for posting again,

Ken

[kammo-man]

Swinks I love my bunker helmet and a bit of paperwork that. Came with it.


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[kammo-man]

I originally picked up the cover because of the tiger picture but it is really cool the longer I have had it.


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[kammo-man]

The odd original photo doesn’t hurt to liven up a thread.

[ScottG]

  Here is one at my museum. Its from another topic here on the forum. The vet changed the chinstrap in the 80s to do the welcome home parades. Otherwise its a fs/sb helmet with his name on it and the liner as well as another name on the shell. The cover was left loose by me as it was starting to tear through. Sadly, we will not tell his story as he is currently incarcerated.    Scott

[644td]

Sweet lid and lids

 

marty

[Blacksmith]

Hey CG, that is a great original worn cover - very nice.

[kammo-man]

Scott 

that’s a beaut 

o 

[kammo-man]

This Nam USMC M1-c with car tire hasn’t been opened up by me.

Though the cover isn’t marked up the band is as found and it’s marked up 
East Los Angeles 

Rudy 

obviously in Marine fashion is was surveyed from a White which is inked out.

owen 

[pegasus2018]

Hers is just one of my graffiti covers which has solid provenance :)

[pegasus2018]

Ok, let's try posting again! Here is one of my graffiti lids :)

 

 

[pegasus2018]

38 minutes ago, pegasus2018 said:

Here is another one of my graffiti lids :)

 

 

 

 

 

[ArchangelDM]

11 hours ago, pegasus2018 said:

 

 

 

Now that’s a cracker !! And I remember it well 

[C.G.]

Great cover! Thanks for posting. 

[CavalryCombatant]

Here’s my humble contribution, nothing crazy but at lease I’m fairly confident it’s period.  Shell & liner are not original to the cover but I think they look decent together.

[VMI88]

Here's a helmet cover I picked up directly from the veteran, a signal soldier who served in the 43rd Signal Battalion in Pleiku in '67-68.  The helmet itself isn't his - he acquired it later to display the cover.

 

[VMI88]

The best part is that he has photos documenting the evolution of the graffiti.  The photo on the right was taken soon after his arrival in Vietnam.  It's clearly the same helmet cover but without grafitti.  The photo on the left was taken during his tour and shows that some but not all of the graffiti was present.  The short-timers calendar and probably many of the other comments seem to have been added during the last month of his tour.

 

 

 

By the way, Judy was there when I bought the helmet from him a few years ago, so that part of the story has a happy ending as well!

 

[trenchfoot]

Those are some awesome helmets being posted! Thank you all for contributing 

Russ

[kammo-man]

That’s a great piece 

Owen 

[patches]

One more original photo. Twisted cords around brims on most along with graffiti on most.

 

Marines, sometime in 1968, unit unknown, at a Camp, maybe Khe Sanh? one even has a mosquito cover, with graffiti on it

[pegasus2018]

I would like to share one of my M1 helmets which was acquired from a fellow collector, who acquired directly from a British deck officer who was working on an oil tanker providing supplies to the US during the Vietnam War.

 

To cut a very long story short, whilst that tanker was on was docked in Vung Ro Bay for a few days in 1968, the particular deck officer and crew developed a relationship with the US personnel ashore. Before the crew departed one of the American GI's presented the combat helmet annotated with signatures. This very lid then made its way back to the UK!.

 

Note how the cover was fitted on the wrong way! All dates on the cover, liner etc.. pre-date 1968, so very original and unique.

 

Enjoy!

 

[C.G.]

Thank you for adding. Very nice example!

[Fighting 69]

Here are mine. I haven't proven if they are real or not, but i thought i should share nonetheless.