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WW2 Japanese Helmet
I got this helmet a few years ago directly from Japan and although it was sold to me as a WW2 Japanese
army helmet after I got it, without me doing anything to it, it morphed into a WW2 Japanese civil defence helmet. However, I also purchased a number of Jap canteens at the same time and I was able to "do a deal", as a certain US president might say and, therefore, I got the helmet at a fair price even if is civil defence rather than army.
I think that this helmet has the lightest of light linings that I have ever seen on a helmet. One can imagine that if one had a brick land on one's head while wearing this helmet one might, possibly, have a rather sore head.
I don't believe that anything has really been done to this helmet since the end of WW2.
Last edited by Flying10uk; 06-05-2025 at 08:56 PM.
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The suspension does appear a bit marginal!
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Not much for used comfort.
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I have one of those, one of the affordable Japanese helmets out there. A lot of guys misrepresent them as combat helmets.
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Originally Posted by
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A lot of guys misrepresent them as combat helmets.
In this case the vendor probably didn't know because he wasn't a militaria dealer but he did happen to have a helmet and a few canteens. None of it looked touched since the end of WW2 and I was able to agree an affordable and fair price for the helmet and all the canteens. The surprising thing was how fast it was shipped to the UK, after paying and dispatch it landed on my doorstep around 3 days later. It takes longer than that sometimes to send a package within the UK.
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