Original U.S. WWI 80th Infantry Division, Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” Japanese Navy and also has an Eagle

and also has an Eagle stamped into the lock over U

the only aircraft of the Far East Air Force to escape

and we have not been able to link these markings to a maker

marked STG 44 and dated 1945

Both of the early chinstrap retaining bales are intact

Original U.S. WWI 80th Infantry Division, Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” Japanese Navy and also has an EagleOriginal Item: Only One Available. When America was drawn into the European conflict it possessed no steel helmets of its own. They looked to other nations for ideas and selected the British helmet as the most suitable. Britain supplied about half a million helmets to the Americans before production of an American version was started in the U. S. This is a fantastic, genuine Great War hand painted 80th Infantry Division Field Artillery British made