Posted 4 years ago
Willow1
(3 items)
moved into a new house and found this in the loft. Anyone tell me any info please along with a few other bits and bobs.
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Posted 4 years ago
Willow1
(3 items)
moved into a new house and found this in the loft. Anyone tell me any info please along with a few other bits and bobs.
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Pretty beat up but looks like an old civil defense helmet from the cold war era.
What is the helmet made of, metal., etc.?
Its not metal
In that case it will be the helmet liner that went into the metal helmet itself.
Yes it is a helmet liner. In rural areas they always used just a liner when marching in a parade or having a drill. I remember as a kid wondering what a bunch if cripple old men were going to do if a war did start. Our school drill was get down and put your head under your desk. Like that will help in the event of a nuclear attack.
There's also a green one that is metal and a material one too. Im just about to add those ones
Im really happy ive found them. Thank you for your help. Can you also advice of the other items ive added please
Maybe some hip-peas left it there, in 1967 after one of the protests
My guess is civil defense also
What do you mean hip peas.
I’m sorry I was trying to make a joke and a small observation ,hippies in the 60s used helmets going to the war protests
I remember the war protests, after I got home from Vietnam in 69 they decided they wanted to assign me to riot control. It was either riot control or funeral duty. I much preferred riot control.
Wmy did you much prefer that ????
Well Willow1 after you fight a war and watch friends get killed, the last thing you want to do is come home and bury others. Been over 50 years and to this day I have been to one funeral and don't intend to go to my own.
Hello, thats an IRAQI M80 helmet made by South Korea for IRAQ , the red triangle shows it was used by the Elite REPUBLICAN GUARD, these helmets date from the IRAN / IRAQ WAR in the 1980's through The GULF WAR in the 1990's and after
these were never imported, most likely brought back to the US by a US serviceman
people often mistake these as some type of helmet liner, but these are actual combat helmets.
http://brendonshelmets.weebly.com/iraq-m80.html
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/30373-iraqi-helmet-from-desert-storm-1991
Thanks for the updated info Battlegear. Learned something new today.