USM1 Navy helmet found in Visé-Belgium
Description
This USM1 helmet was found in the town of Visé (Liège - Belgium) near the city of Maastricht (Netherlands) in the 90'. In September 1944, during the liberation of Belgium, Albert Canal linking Antwerp to Liege, played an important supply of US forces role. The boats coming from Antwerp unloaded equipment for troops in Liege.
The helmet is in untouched condition, it belonged to an assistant commander as mentioned with the white painted marking on the liner. The shell still retains more than 95% of the Navy blue paint, a white painted marking « QUAD4 » is present on the front of the helmet, the early chinstraps are still present and in very good condition, some navy blue paint is visible at some places on the chinstraps. The helmet comes with its original early « Westinghouse » liner, it is also over painted in blue Navy paint, it has painted on the front the marking « ASST COMM », meaning that the helmet belonged to the boat's assistant commander. The set is in nice untouched condition !
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