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image.png.1f3e773feb5e656af83ad9726a2427a2.pngWere helmet graveyards like this common?

The Rooster
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Yes. And here in the states too.

A couple years back someone was selling a couple pallets full of old Navy helmets from the USS SanFransisco

that were found in an old dilapidated warehouse. Many WW2 helmets were painted and repaired and put back into service.

Some were melted down. Prob the very damaged ones.

manayunkman
Posted

There is a helmet graveyard in Palmdale,  CA.

phantomfixer
Posted

Saw a mountain of M-1s in the early 90’s at Dover AFB at DRMO… rescued a few but the rest went to a scrap yard

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These are helmets in the op  are from casualties or other battlefield pick ups and will be inspected and if need be made serviceable and even repainted and reissued. There's video posted some where of the activities I think in Normandy of recovered helmets being painted right, cant  find it 

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4 hours ago, BEAT_NAVY said:

image.png.1f3e773feb5e656af83ad9726a2427a2.pngWere helmet graveyards like this common?

 

 

I recall these were taken from US POWS

Posted

I think my garage is a helmet graveyard....

 

part of a small group of salvage helmets and liners. There was 230 steel shells and 560 (?) liners 

 

 

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Posted

helmets from KIA and WIA of the 173rd Airborne. 

Helmets173rd.jpg

easterneagle87
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A Facebook market place ad from a bit ago out of Madera, CA. Seems appropriate to add. 
 

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Posted
1 hour ago, doyler said:

I think my garage is a helmet graveyard....

 

part of a small group of salvage helmets and liners. There was 230 steel shells and 560 (?) liners 

 

 

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Helm2.jpg

😲 Get a few more shells and you could wear a different one every day for a whole year!

Posted
3 minutes ago, mikie said:

😲 Get a few more shells and you could wear a different one every day for a whole year!

 

 

true but been told Im hard headed enough already.. 😊

Posted
13 minutes ago, easterneagle87 said:

A Facebook market place ad from a bit ago out of Madera, CA. Seems appropriate to add. 
 

C378D420-FB00-4F1C-8722-AB2808D9FDBB.jpeg

016D2F87-EB65-4E59-9E37-0E849C1478D1.jpeg

 

 

Salvage yard in SLC Utah had a few as well.

Posted

A similar photo, Vietnam. Helmets among other gear from Marine Corps causalities of Operation Harvest Moon December 1965.

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Burning Hazard
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Some more vintage pics of helmet piles

 

 

M1 Helmet Pile 1945.jpg

Burning Hazard
Posted

Here is what happened to helmets to got "recycled" at the end of WWII, they got repainted and put back into the system.

M1 helmet repainting 1945.jpg

Burning Hazard
Posted

A well documented photo from the 86th ID showing helmets getting stacked after VE day in 1945 before being shipped to the US for recycling/destruction

M1 Helmet pile 2 1945.jpg

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Thanks to all of you! I never knew that this was common

15 hours ago, The Rooster said:

Yes. And here in the states too.

A couple years back someone was selling a couple pallets full of old Navy helmets from the USS SanFransisco

that were found in an old dilapidated warehouse. Many WW2 helmets were painted and repaired and put back into service.

Some were melted down. Prob the very damaged ones.

 

14 hours ago, manayunkman said:

There is a helmet graveyard in Palmdale,  CA.

 

12 hours ago, phantomfixer said:

Saw a mountain of M-1s in the early 90’s at Dover AFB at DRMO… rescued a few but the rest went to a scrap yard

 

10 hours ago, patches said:

These are helmets in the op  are from casualties or other battlefield pick ups and will be inspected and if need be made serviceable and even repainted and reissued. There's video posted some where of the activities I think in Normandy of recovered helmets being painted right, cant  find it 

 

10 hours ago, doyler said:

I think my garage is a helmet graveyard....

 

part of a small group of salvage helmets and liners. There was 230 steel shells and 560 (?) liners 

 

 

Resized952021032095183217.jpg

Helm2.jpg

 

9 hours ago, easterneagle87 said:

A Facebook market place ad from a bit ago out of Madera, CA. Seems appropriate to add. 
 

C378D420-FB00-4F1C-8722-AB2808D9FDBB.jpeg

016D2F87-EB65-4E59-9E37-0E849C1478D1.jpeg

 

6 minutes ago, Burning Hazard said:

Some more vintage pics of helmet piles

 

 

M1 Helmet Pile 1945.jpg

 

The Rooster
Posted

The serviceable one were used over and over. In my guard unit in the 1980's,

I was issued a brand new low dome M1.

But I saw a lot of guys who were issued WW2 pots and I would see those guys

cutting the canvas straps from the bails and putting the newer clip on chinstraps onto the helmets.

If I only knew back then...... lol

Posted
12 hours ago, doyler said:

helmets from KIA and WIA of the 173rd Airborne. 

Helmets173rd.jpg

Do you know any background information of this photo? I believe I’ve seen it before but never knew when/ where it was taken. I’m assuming Dak To? 

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On 4/4/2022 at 9:21 AM, 326thAEB said:

Do you know any background information of this photo? I believe I’ve seen it before but never knew when/ where it was taken. I’m assuming Dak To? 

 

Dak To

helmets belonging to the casualties of the 173d Airborne Brigade are piled up on Hill 875 following the battle, 22 Nov 67

 

Hill 875


The 2nd and 4th Battalion's of the 503rd Infantry suffered 33 Missing in Action, 158 Killed in Action and 411 evacuated wounded, while fighting for Hill 875. During the 21 days of fighting around Dak To that November some 3000 NVA loses were estimated. During that same 21 days of fighting around the Dak TO area the 173rd Airborne Brigade suffered 272 Killed in Action, over 900 wounded and some 60 Missing in Action. Ending some of the bloodiest fighting of the Vietnam War.

General overhead view of Hill 875, November 24th, following its capture by elements of the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

 

 

 

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