Original U.S. WWI Named 27th Infantry Division, Mobile Veterinary Section No 105 Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - Horseshoer John F. Smith, With Information British Machine Guns with its distinctive design

with its distinctive design

Provenance:

This helmet is stamped 882Cwhich indicates the approximate manufacture date of March 1944

Floyd Wynn - Lamar

with one still having a partial trigger mechanism

Original U.S. WWI Named 27th Infantry Division, Mobile Veterinary Section No 105 Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - Horseshoer John F. Smith, With Information British Machine Guns with its distinctive designOriginal 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 27th Infantry Division, 107th Infantry Regiment,