Original WWII U.S. Navy Damage Control Officer’s Painted Front Seam Swivel Bale Schlueter M1 Helmet Complete with Liner British Documents & Books and is now partly missing

and is now partly missing

as a working blank fire FLINTLOCK JEZAIL used by the Natives in this famous 1939 Movie Gunga Din

There is also a smaller repair by the cap lock bolster

and was refinished with black paint at some point

Original WWII U.S. Navy Damage Control Officer’s Painted Front Seam Swivel Bale Schlueter M1 Helmet Complete with Liner British Documents & Books and is now partly missingOriginal Item: One of a Kind. This is a unique example of a WWII M1 Helmet with markings to a U. S. Navy Damage Control Officer. This example is in very good condition considering signs of honest wear from use, and decades of storage wear, and appears to have been together since the war! The Helmet features a shell painted in standard WWII U. S. Navy Blue, which appears to be covering a layer of red paint underneath, which denotes Damage Control