Early Vietnam M1C Helmet

[Harlan (Deceased)]

Yes Sir!

I had at least twice this many helmets before I had to sell them a couple of years ago when I hit a rough spot in the road. I collected only different types of WWII helmets which were very expensive, even back several years ago. They're out of sight now, and I only have one WWII era helmet but collecting the other time periods which are much more affordable is great fun. I had to buy several books and learn a lot of new information to have a clue what I was doing with 'pre' and post WWII, but doing the research is a great deal of the fun to me anyway.

If anyone is interested I can do some detail photos and characteristics of some of the other specific time period of U.S. helmets (?)

In the photo above on the far lower right there's one displayed helmet that's sitting higher than the others. It's this one that I put together for a Christmas gift for my son. This is called an Advanced Combat Helmet, or 'ACH' - It's the current type of helmet being used today by the U.S. Army. The first kevlar helmet design was called the PASGT and it had sides that came down farther than the newest one. They found the lower sides obstructed vision even though it had more protection, so they opted for better vision and raised the sides a little.

The first design of kevlar helmet looked a lot like German helmets from WWII, or the 'Stahlhelm' ('Steel Helmet' in German)
The young GI's nicknamed them 'The Fritz' or instead of calling it a 'K-pot' as the first slang term, they called them the 'Kraut-pot' (No offense meant, Gunner)

This is the ACH I made up for my son and it's now in his room - It has a mount for night vision goggles on it.




This is the earlier design PASGT -




As a comparison, this is the WWII German Stahlhelm I had, but had to sell