Front seam with red squares

[Remember Me]

Schlueter  front seam. Has a brushed on coat of paint. Has one bail missing and the other is a swivel bail with a vietnam era chin strap. Any idea on the red squares. They look like they were on before the overpaint.

[manayunkman]

It reminds me of USMC but I don’t know why

[Remember Me]

That was the thoughts of some of the guys  at the flea market.  It had 12.00 dollars wrote on the top with magic marker. I got rid of some of it.

[Cap Camouflage Pattern I]

USMC Landing Support Battalion markings, aka shore party. Used from WW2 until present day. 

[aef1917]

10 hours ago, Cap Camouflage Pattern I said:

USMC Landing Support Battalion markings, aka shore party. Used from WW2 until present day. 

 

Not just USMC.  The red squares were also used by Army and Navy personnel.

[Mr.Jerry]

Nice find!  I have one with a matching frogskin cover, and some fatigues from the guy also with little red squares sewn on.

[Nickman983]

Nice find! Not sure why but I really like these helmets. I've got 3 so far from different eras with different color squares (red, yellow, and white).

[manayunkman]

Looks like the helmet is camouflaged as well?

[CavalryCombatant]

That’s a nice one, congratulations!

[Remember Me]

It's  not camo.  That's  just shadows.  The branch of service doesn't  really matter to me. Any painted helmet is a good helmet. Unpainted are fine too.

[Cap Camouflage Pattern I]

On 4/24/2025 at 8:04 AM, aef1917 said:

 

Not just USMC.  The red squares were also used by Army and Navy personnel.

Interesting, I hadn't realized that. Did they continue to use them after WWII?

[shadawg]

There are so many amphibious units that used the red square, and is not purely limited to usmc. Honestly you might see more army using them than any. My examples here can help shed a little insight to the possibilities. The far left was used by a man in the 96th ID wounded at okinawa. The middle has regimental insignia tracing to the 592nd EBSR of the 2nd engineers. The one on the right bears the earlier double horizontal bars of the 2nd marine engineers seen at tarawa. Repainted with a camo and later seen red square. A friend of mine also has a red square helmet identified to a seabee in the 133rd ncb at iwo. So much more has been found out about these in recent times. But they still leave questions to be asked at the same time.