' Lee owns, buys and sells slaves'      is patently false. Lee was married to Mary Custis, great granddaughter of George Washington and as her Father had only Daughters, she inherited Arlington Manor from her Father. When he dies, his will under law had to be executed by a male or in this case, his Son in Law Robert E Lee. George Washington Parke Custis owned slaves and his will emancipated them. When Lee returned home from campaign he saw to it that the will was executed in accordance with Mr. Custis' wishes. Robert E. Lee owned no slaves nor did he trade in them. He was a career soldier. These same paternal laws are part and parcel to why we have Arlington National Cemetery as Mary was unable to pay the taxes while the general was at war and it was seized. The Lee family won it back in court after the war but sold the land to the government at market value and the burials remained. Lee owned neither land nor slaves. Arlington exists today due to the Lee family and their willingness to sell the land rather than force the government to move the dead, which were put there to desecrate the land and punish his family. This was done by Stanton, a true piece of work perhaps worse than old spoons Butler.    Scott

Markings don't look American....Good chance it's German Navy as it looks to have Crown-'M' stamps....Kriegsmarine (German Navy) using 'M' as their way of denoting something having been inspected and accepted by them.....Bodes

The name on the aircraft is my dog’s name, Captain Jack and it includes his nickname “Doodle.”  My dad, the former A7 jock approves. 👍

TBHs were most common with the Air Force in various specialty roles like TACPs  

Correct. It looks like he was in the medical and replacement systems until the end of Dec 1944, when he was assigned to the unit below in the ETO:  

Wow!!  Love it!!  I'm a Grant fan too.  Whatever criticisms might be levelled at him, you have to admire dogged determination.  That he left the army under somewhat of a cloud, rightly or wrongly, and then rose to be Union's top general after proving himself in battle time after time and then president after that is quite a story.  

In a local junk shop there was a promotional war photo of Clark Gable in uniform.....Was overpriced and didn't purchase it.....The Ladd photo is tasteful and displayed nicely with the banner....Bodes

Walmart was selling them (without the fullers) before Ontario closed.

I hesitate to add anything further concerning the value of this helmet, as it clearly depends heavily on context and location. Here in Canada, however, there is more and more interest in M1 helmets generally, but also in examples of Canadian-issued sets that remain in 'last-used' condition. I think this example falls into that category, as both the liner and shell are marked to a soldier named Plamondon (with a service number ending in 237). Before Plamondon, the shell and liner were issued to various other soldiers, in combination with other shells and liners now lost to time. (Naturally, over the years, as sets got turned into QM, the shells and liners were separated and reissued without any regard for the vintage of each item.) At some point, the shell was painted for use by someone assigned to BDF duties, probably in conjunction with some other liner. The woodland covers began to appear in the Canadian Forces about 1986 or so, and carried on until the helmets were finally phased out in the late 1990s. That fact that this is a relatively early production fixed loop shell indicates that it might be one of the 200,000 shells that were shipped to Ottawa in April 1943, and then mostly put into storage until the M1 was widely issued to the Canadian Army in the 1960s. (The explanation behind that shipment and the subsequent decision not to issue the helmets immediately is rather convoluted, and best left for another day.) In any case, I hope that whoever ends up with this helmet appreciates it for what it is, and does not simply strip away the postwar parts and try to convert the shell back into its original wartime configuration. As it sits, the set has an interesting story to tell about the evolution of the M1 in Canadian service between the war years and the late 1990s.     

Bumping this old thread;   Realated to the subject, here is a orginal color film still taken from the 1942 documentary/propaganda flim "The Battle of Midway" by John Ford, A film made about the battle of the same name. It shows USN AA crews on a carrier shooting at incoming Japanese air attack. I see many with M1917s/A1s they look more Green then Grey to me... Still. it's kinda hard to tell from the lighting and footage is grainy.