This helmet got me looking into damaged helmets and I found an article about this one...... Photo below "On June 6, 1944, Clinton Gardner, Class of 1944, found himself digging a foxhole on Omaha Beach as part of the D-Day invasion of German occupied Europe. The landing area was already strewn with bodies and the Germans were raking the incoming allied forces with artillery and machine gun fire. Gardner, a Lieutenant in the artillery, was not about to move any further inland until the infantry made a hole in the German defenses, and that did not seem to be about to happen."   https://portraitofwar.com/tag/helmet-damage-wwii/

Thanks Allan Billyh

Wow, that's great. The Fat Albert paint scheme is one of the finest a Hercules has ever sported IMHO!

Thank you for writing.  We will have items to sell - as soon as someone unlocks the "TO SELL". or FOR SALE <?> key for us.  Did you notice the pictures we posted on the "WHAT'S IT WORTH?? " page ?  I am hoping to get some help with that. If you happen to have any suggestions, we will be happy to hear from you.  Thank you.  But you did not sign your name ??? cheers, Donna

Thank you!

Yeah they also had "jungle rot" issues, ie humidity issues. Also sometimes would go wild in the air, kind of like a bottle rocket without a tail. I have fired 2 and one worked fine the other kind of went wild and seemed like it didn't fully burn, at least compared to the other one that looked to work as intended. 

I wanted to share this helmet set and liner I recently acquired with this thread. These are part of a grouping including two of Strieby’s 11th Airborne patched uniforms. 

Very sad news indeed. My condolences to his family!

Hey, thanks for the info. I heard from someone else that they were not very dependable so even if it was a convenient size i’d imagine you would want something that functions dependably in an emergency situation.