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Offered today is a lovely example of a Second World War German Model 1942 (M42) steel helmet. This helmet retains its original liner but is missing its chinstrap. Please note the crack and small dent to the helmets shell as well as the bending which has occurred on the liner band in the spot where the shell is cracked. I do not believe this helmet has been disturbed within recent years and would feel comfortable saying this damage occurred during the World War Two period, possibly in combat. This helmet comes to me from the relative of the Mexican-American veteran who brought it home to Michigan as a souvenir of his service. This is a very nice helmet, the leather of which is in good and not dried out condition. Please read before purchasing. Please use the images provided to judge the condition of the item for sale for yourself. The box is then weighed for accuracy and sealed on camera. Under no circumstances will I sell an item to any customer whose feedback is set to private. By purchasing this item you once again confirm and agree that you have read and agree to these terms. The item “M42 German Helmet Captured Bring Back War Trophy with Liner WWII WW2 World War Two” is in sale since Friday, January 8, 2021. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\WW II (1939-45)\Original Period Items\Germany\Hats & Helmets”. The seller is “tigerpride2014″ and is located in Battle Creek, Michigan. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Region of Origin: Germany
• Date of Creation: 1942-1945
• Modified Item: No
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
• Theme: Militaria
• Original/Reproduction: Original
• Conflict: WW II (1939-45)

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66th Infantry Division Soldier Northern France Mailed German Combat M40 Camouflage helmet. The M40 was produced from 1940 until mid-1942 (with the exception of the Quist factory) and as can be seen, the air vents are pressed into the sides of the shell during the manufacturing process. The helmet for sale was mailed back by a US soldier who served in the 66th ID for the US during WWII. This helmet has a hand applied camouflage paint that is a dull brown color that wraps around the entire helmet with more prominent paint texture applied to the back. The helmet has all the original 2 side rivets along with the back rivet in place and solid condition. The liner is in good originally condition and is just missing the inside sting to hold the middle liner together. The lot of pictures was also found inside the helmet line and were mailed back with the helmet. They have the date of 1942 written on most of them. YOU WILL RECEIVE THE HELMET AND PHOTOS. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THEM TO STAY TOGETHER. History of the 66th Infantry Division. They trained and prepared for deployment until 24 December 1944, then transferred to Southampton before crossing the English Channel to Cherbourg, France. Two Belgian transport vessels, the Cheshire and Leopoldville carried the 66th across the English Channel. However, only 5 miles from the port of Cherbourg, the Leopoldville was torpedoed by a German U-Boat and sunk, taking the lives of 14 officers and 748 enlisted soldiers. Primarily involved with destroying the German troops left behind by the retreat from Northern France, the 66th Infantry Division relieved the 94th Infantry Division of control of the Brittany-Loire area on 29 December 1944, and collaborated with French forces as well. The 66th carried out its objective by harassing German installations, limited objective attacks, and running reconnaissance missions to gather intelligence. The use of artillery shelling many German positions also played a major part in the advancement of the 66th through the region. In total, there were about 100,000 German soldiers that remained in the ports of Lorient, St. Nazaire, Bordeaux and La Rochelle. Notably, a heavy German attack near La Croix was repulsed on 16 April 1945 and several strongly fortified enemy positions were taken from 19 to 29 April 1945 in a series of counterattacks. These battles played a pivotal role in ending the Nazi occupation of Northern France. The remaining German soldiers surrendered to 66th Infantry Division officers and French officials in a small cafe near Cordemais on 8 May 1945. Ordered to change to an occupational-oriented mission 14 May 1945, the 66th made a 700-mile trek into Germany where the Black Panthers occupied 2400 square miles of territory and the city of Koblenz. As a security force, the division was charged with establishment of a military government and control of all German affairs. Tasks included the dischargement of prisoners of war, inventorying of ammunition and supplies, and organizing civilians. And formally inactivated, sailing for home 27 October 1945. The item “WWII 66th Infantry Captured Northern France Mailed German M40 Camo Helmet Relic” is in sale since Wednesday, July 17, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\WW II (1939-45)\Original Period Items\Germany\Hats & Helmets”. The seller is “curio_artifacts” and is located in Algonquin, Illinois. This item can be shipped to United States.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: France

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Jasko Utah Beach Normandy Captured 709th Infantry German Helmet Relic. William Jasko of Mountainside New Jersey served his country during WWII in the 4th Infantry Division and was a member of one of the first US infantry units to attack the German on Utah Beach during the D-Day invasion. Jasko later went on to serve in operations throughout Northern France as well as the liberation of Paris against the Nazis. This Normandy Camo German 709th Infantry Division helmet was captured by CLP. Jasko on Utah Beach and sent to a family friend Deputy Sherif Carl Wadman of Richmond Indiana following the landings on June 6, 1944. Before sending the helmet to family friend, Sherif Carl Wadman, CLP. Jasko took out the inside helmet liner and painted it with a grey/blue tone paint in order to address the inside clearly. In the listing you will also find the obituary given to me with the helmet of Jasko as well as records I have looked up regarding his family heritage and history. I want this helmet to go to a good home and someone who will value the history as I do. 4th Infantry Division Attach on Utah Beach. There are two sectors on Utah: Uncle Red and Tare Green, located between the towns of Dunes-de-Varreville (North) and La Madeleine (South). These beaches are defended by the 709th german infantry division which has installed seven strongpoints. Two coastal artillery batteries, located at Montebourg and Saint-Marcouf, can open fire on this beach, since these guns have a firing range of almost 30 kilometers. Army of Major General J. Lawton Collins will be engaged first. It is composed of the 8th, 22nd and 12nd infantry regiments of the 4th american infantry division led by Major General Raymond O. These units will launch the attack of Utah Beach on D-Day in order to capture the landing beach sectors, then to establish a solid beachhead and to carry out the junction with the airborne troops of the 82nd and 101st American airborne divisions. The assault must take place early in the morning at 6.30, a timetable that corresponds to the lowest tide. The Allies voluntarily choose this moment because the defenses of beaches installed by the Germans are clearly visible at low tide. Thus, the engineers can clear breaches on the beach in order to disembark the reinforcements. Tuesday June 6, at 3 oclock in the morning, the U fleet (Utah) arrives near the Cotentin beaches and damps at approximately 18 kilometers off the coast, a distance which limits the effectiveness of the German coastal batteries. The sunrise comes at 05:58 a. Exactly, 28 minutes after the beginning of the bombardment of the German positions by the allied warships. This huge bombardment follows air raids carried out by thousand of allied bombers. American soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions (8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division) who have embarked into the landing crafts are witnessing these bombardments which plow the French soil and fill the sky with immense plumes of smoke. Even though many of them suffer from a terrible seasickness, they are relieved to see their objectives under such a rain of steel. Two squadrons of amphibious duplex drive tanks are launched three kilometers from the shore and have to reach the beach areas by their own means thanks to two propellers and a rubber skirt. They progress in two waves of assault: the first one is composed of twelve duplex drive tanks and the second one is composed of sixteen identical tanks. But the amphibious tanks are falling behind and are soon overtaken by the landing craft of the 2nd Battalion which take the lead of the offensive on the beach area nicknamed Uncle Red. The 2nd Battalion lands on Uncle Red sector south-east of Saint-Martin-de-Varreville. The 1st Battalion lands fifteen minutes later on Tare Green beach area, east of Saint-Martin-de-Varreville, simultaneously with the amphibious tanks belonging to the 70th Tank Battalion (squadrons A and B). The latter reach the beach and immediately engage the opposing positions. During the first minutes of the 4th Infantry Divisions landing on Utah Beach, the German shots are numerous but not very precise. Gradually, German machine guns leave room for random but deadly explosions of shells fired by field guns belonging to the German 709. One effective, although more permanent method of concealing the helmet was the use of camouflage paint. It is up to some debate exactly when this method began among German soldiers but by the time of the Normandy campaign it was widespread. In mid 1943 the German high command ordered that a three color camouflaged scheme of tan, green and brown be used in the painting of vehicles and other equipment. These same paints were used to camouflage helmets as well. While the high command did order specific color codes be used for consistency, the hues of tan, green, and brown can vary on original examples significantly. The mix of these tan, green, and brown colors were used by German troops at Normandy with such frequency that today collectors call almost any German helmet with a mix of these three colors Normandy Camo. It should be clear that while the use of these three colors for camouflaging helmets was common, there was never a directive from the German military high command to paint helmets in this manor. No officially sanctioned Normandy camo existed. The collector term, Normandy camo can still be justified to a large degree. Photos from the battle as well as surviving original example with Normandy providence would indicate this particular camo pattern was a favorite of Germans during the campaign. The mix of the three colors was certainly a good choice for Normandy as the countryside does exhibit those same colors. That being said with much of Western Europes terrain looking so similar this same pattern would see action in other battles as well. The camouflage paints used at Normandy do not confine themselves to distinct hues of tan, brown and green. Some helmets were painted with two colors or just one and sometimes with non-standard military paints that were probably locally sourced. Further complicating the matter, captured British, Soviet, French and Italian paints were all used to camouflage helmets at Normandy. The hue of these colors often deviate from the standard German military colors. The German soldiers who camouflaged their helmets were well aware of their surroundings and certainly were aware of what colors and patterns would blend into the terrain they would soon be fighting in. It is logical they would have chosen colored paint based the local area which would account for the variation. Camouflaged paint was applied to helmets using a number of methods. The paint was issued from military stores in tins of concentrated paste which was produced in a manor to be thinned with either water or gasoline. The paint could be either sprayed or brush on. Usually this was only done to the outside of the helmet; however, sometimes the inside of the skirt was painted as well. In some very rare cases, the liner was removed so the inside of the dome could be painted as well. German troops attached to armored, artillery, troop carriers or anti-tank units had access to pneumatic paint guns. It is therefore logical that the majority of these men would have used leftover vehicle paint which they could apply to their helmets with the units pneumatic paint guns. Soldiers that did camouflage their helmet with paint guns often sprayed the paint with disruptive patterns that further broke up the outline of the helmet. Sometimes the paint was sprayed over netting to create a pattern when the net was removed. When mechanical painting equipment wasnt available, the helmet was painted with a brush. A rag could also be used to smear paint onto the helmets surface. During the painting process, the helmets decal was often carefully masked off and painted around, but it has been discovered that some decals were simply painted over. While the helmet factories had been ordered to cease applying decals in the summer of 1943, there was never an order given to men in the field to remove their decals. Therefore, any attempt at painting over the decal may be reasoned as indifference by the painter or perhaps as a true method of further camouflage, but not as an order from the high command. Because the painted surface of a helmet can take on a reflective sheen, German troops found ways to cut down on the glare. During the painting process, the wet paint was often sprinkled with sawdust, pebbles, grit, wood chips, seed casings, and even bits of dry grass. This created a rough finish which cut down on the reflection. The item “WWII 4th Infantry CPL. Jasko Utah Beach D-Day Captured 709th German Helmet Relic” is in sale since Tuesday, May 7, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\WW II (1939-45)\Original Period Items\Germany\Hats & Helmets”. The seller is “curio_artifacts” and is located in Algonquin, Illinois. This item can be shipped to United States.

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A very historic and interesting helmet to say the least! Helmet is in excellent untouched original condition and is named in the liner. I think this is DAK (German Army North Africa) and not tropical due to the heat impacts on the paint finish, I have only seen this on Australian vet bought back DAK helmets. Helmet has an army decal (hard to see under paint) and 1940 dated liner band. There where Jewish units serving in the British army prior to the formation of the Jewish Brigade in 1944. The following information is interesting. Jewish units fought with the British army in Greece in 1941; 100 Palestinian Jews were killed there and 1,700 captured by the Germans. On August 6, 1942, the British army formed a Palestine Regiment out of three Jewish and one Palestinian Arab battalion. The regiment fought in Egypt and in the battles of North Africa. The Jewish Brigade Group of the British army, which fought under the Zionist flag, was formally established in September 1944. It included more than 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine organized into three infantry battalions and several supporting units. Under the command of Brigadier Ernest Benjamin, the Jewish Brigade fought against the Germans in Italy from March 1945 until the end of the war in May 1945. After the German surrender, the Jewish Brigade was stationed along the Italian border with Austria and Yugoslavia, and later in Belgium and the Netherlands. Some soldiers from the Brigade helped create displaced persons camps for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Brigade members also became involved in organizing the flight of Jewish refugees from eastern Europe and their clandestine entry into Palestine. Individual soldiers acquired arms for the Hagana, the major Jewish underground defense organization in Palestine. Britain disbanded the Jewish Brigade Group in the summer of 1946. Some 30,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine served with the British forces during World War II. More than 700 were killed during active service. The item “Superb and Historic DAK German WW2 Jewish Brigade Captured Helmet” is in sale since Saturday, April 13, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Militaria\WW II (1939-45)\Original Period Items\Germany\Hats & Helmets”. The seller is “hamptonside” and is located in Hampton, VIC. This item can be shipped worldwide.

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Hard to find original motorcycle plate from Germany. USA veteran bring back from WW2. Legit original, not some made up eastern euro repo. The item “German Motorcycle License Plate WW2 Bmw Stuttgart Helmet Dagger Captured” is in sale since Saturday, October 28, 2017. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Transportation\Automobilia\License Plates\Germany”. The seller is “66gt350.2206″ and is located in Ione, California. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe, Japan, Australia.

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