It's salty but great history and been there and definitely interesting I like it alot.. thanks

Great video.... very informative....I'm from the UK and when I was very little I remember seeing American soldiers on TV and my mum telling me that America had just lost a war and were going home! To me, I couldn't believe John Wayne (who was America to me back then) could ever lose a war.....and my fascinating with that war and all the imagery and iconography, began. There was a shop, called the 'swap shop' which had bits of militaria that went as far back as the Hussars (honestly!)..... It had a Vietnam era M1 in the window....but being a little kid I couldn't afford it....and there was no way my hippy mum was gonna buy it for me! Well, sadly, that shop closed back in the 70's and my chance was lost.....until a surplus shop opened in my town and were selling a bunch of them.... I, of course, bought 2 🤭 but gave one away. I always suspected that they might be post Vietnam....and now you've confirmed it for me! Still, I love my M1.... Thanks for the information

Thank you for this video!! I just found out my beat up front seam is schlueter!!!!

Very nice helmet, I’m thinking of getting into collecting

Nice collection.

Excellent material,congratulations Greeting from Spain

Badass uniforms! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

At Times it Seems that Foreigners have better Collections than us Germans.:) I mean Congratulations.

The brown one is from WW1.

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Awesome helmet bro, this video is very interesting and informative...

Cool helmet. I like the transitional 16s as well. They are a less refined look than the 35s.

Nice video

The brown k98 pouch is for the gewer 98 and it holds one extra stripper clip in each cell

2 preguntas; porque la costura era frontal y luego trasera? y porque eran de acero no magnético?

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guess i just picked up a pretty strange helmet shell has front seam and swivel bales but also has an 80s chinstrap pretty poorly put on liners pretty normal since its just a regular vietnam liner

I'm not a rich guy, and I don't care about what the "worth" of something is. I just like to be able to collect some history. For cheap! Good stuff, man.

100% fake

Finally an informative video I can now figure out who made the helmet that I randomly found In a curiosity shop in Canada you don't normally find Vietnam American helmets here The most confusing part about it is it didn't have any divots in The seam but I did find the serial number thanks

Very informative video! hope to see more, would love to see ww2 german helmets talked about next.

the collar tabs where actuealy always the same on heeresverwaltung tunics, all of them had the dark green piping like yours, there was no way to know what section he worked in

I think it's interesting you went back down the German road. I was huge into Panzer parts for a while, but I got out of German for US and haven't looked back. I'm not going to sell my Tiger link, or any other pieces, I'm just way more in to US atm. There are just some fucking shady people in German stuff. I would like an armband and EK2. But I'm not feeling the German scene right now.

Went to a yard sale and bought an m1 with swivle bails. Curious witch era it was from. It is colored olive drab number three with the seam in the rear. The brim is not stainless, it is pitted and rusted.

Real nice video. Going to dig out my old helmets and check them out.🪖🪖

Very interesting early tunic ...i think the Hindenburg cross was later added. This style of ribbon was made to wear on civil clothes. Normally it is part of a ribbon bar. Even a single medal was on a ribbon bar. I have no proof of my opinion but i never saw that style before on a tunic

☝🤓 Erm akshually his rank was Stabszahlmeister. Wehrmachtbeamte des Heeres (Armed forces officials of the army) are an obscure and complex subject. They were simultaneously both members of the army and held the status of Reich civil officials. The ranks of these officials were divided into four levels, simple services (Einfacher dienst), middle services (Mitteler dienst), elevated services (Gehobener dienst), and higher services (Höherer dienst). The two ranks in the simple services were equivalent to unterfeldwevel and feldwebel. The three ranks in the middle services were equivalent to oberfeldwebel, leutnant and oberleutnant. The five ranks in the elevated services were equivalent to the ranks from leutnant to oberstleutnant. The eight ranks in the higher services were equivalent to the ranks from oberleutnant to general der infantrie. None of the careers actually had positions for all the possible ranks in the system though. Recruiting officials for example only had three known ranks, leutnant-equivalent sekretär in the middle services and oberleutnant-equivalent inspektor and hauptmann-equivalent oberinspektor the in higher services. The branch colour for officials was dark green, with careers further specified by a secondary color (Nebenfarbe) with the exception of field clergies who had violet branch color. Most of these officials wore Heeresverwaltung HV monogram cyphers on their shoulder boards. The exceptions being: Army post officials (Feldpost) who wore FP cyphers, Secret field police (Geheime feldpolizei) who wore GFP cyphers, War/Military administration (Kriegsverwaltung /Militarverwaltung) who wore eagle cyphers, Military supreme court officials (Reichskriegsgericht) who wore no cyphers and field clergies (Feldgeistliche) who wore no shoulder boards at all. There were a handful of careers with white secondary color but Stabszahlmeister from the paymaster service (Zahlmeisterwesen/Zahlmeisterlaufbahn) is so far the only hauptmann equivalent that I have been able to identify with this secondary branch color. A Stabsapotheker would have had light green piping on the shoulder boards and around 3/4ths the collar tab and since all pharmacist officials were in the higher services (gehobener dienst) their litzen would have been of "toothed" design in gold similar to the litzen worn by officers in OKH and OKW.

The newspaper clipping could possibly mention his name. I can imagine that he saw his own name in the papers and cut it out.

were there any 4 or 6 digit numbers on the tailor's tag ? Or some where else inside , maybe under a pocket flap or in the inside pocket ? If you can find the ID code for the officer , I'll see if I can find his records for you

The Heerresverwaltung actually had nothing to do with administering occupied countries, it was more of the Administrative/Specialist corps of the Heer itself. Think of it as a group of specialists, including but not limited to Judicial, Pay, Clerical, Procurement etc.

Wao coolllll dude😮😮😮😮

Your R.J stampings helmet will be a 3 number heat stamp with no alphabetical letters following or after the number. Thank you for sharing about the motor wheel helmet. This is my first time hearing or seeing one. Thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge on M1 helmets as I have just started collecting around 3 months ago. It gets a bit expensive...lol

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My grandma plates with 5wastikas when she died. She gave my other family member world war 2 stuff and he said he doesn’t care for it so it will probably end up thrown in the garbage.

Interesting stuff. I am not too keen on Ukraine/Russia stuff. But the mannequin for your grandfathers kit is cool. My grandfather was a medic in WW2, so I have a lot of his stuff, but I put the dress jacket in a shadow bow. I'm starting to think a mannequin would have been better.

Nice helmet:) I love how you keep history ALIVE. 💪💪💪💪💪

You probably got burnt on this one bud, markings on the helmet look sketchy at the very best. Wouldnt reccomend overpaying on these items just because someone destroyed them and scribled on them with a sharpie

Very nice. Did you buy it from eBay or from a private seller?

Hola amigo, soy nuevo en tu canal. Me suscribo porque me gustan los cascos y este canal es muy bueno... Sigue asi, saludos desde México

I'm not sure on the gurtrommel, I'd have to look in to them more. Nice helmets and flag though.

Do you stay in Rockingham?

Christ i must be old. My grandfather was WW2 and my dad was vietnam era.

This is the best video on M1s I've seen. I found a korean war m1 with an 80s liner at an antique store and bought it. I cant find a heat stamp but it has the McCord 4 oval marks on the rear seam and has the od green painted buckles, so I know its korean McCord. The type 1 ground forces liner is a bummer, but i can get a period liner for it.

Neat Old Helmet!

Very nice USMC M1

Hello I would like to add some comments on these helmets. First first you got your helmet was issued at CIF the Central issuing facility. Second, you would get a subsequent pool from your supply room. Or you could buy the parts at what we call the clothing sale store. And when I was a private, we would have what they call the layout inspection where all your gear had to be laid out and you would have a senior ncl. First sergeant or a sergeant major come and check your gear at. A few times along the way, my career in the military very early back in the 80s. When I was in Germany I was issued a helmet and a helmet liner where the helmet had probably more than likely. It was a Korean war chinstrap and the helmet. When you get it from CIF. Basically somebody just hands you a helmet and it's yours to take care of. During a few inspections where I had my gear looked at the sergeant. Major had commented that the my helmet should be repainted. So to do that, we would go to the clothing sales store where you could buy OD green spray paint. And we would repaint the helmets. The chinstraps say the older anything before the eightit would be changed out. I you also must say. I was in the army the first time from 80 to 83. The chin straps you would go down to your supply room and get a new chin strap. The kind that clipped on to the swivel balls and then you're sweatband as they basically got staying, you would go downstairs and get a new sweatband and replace it because, during the inspections, your stuff needed to be in better condition than it was issued to along the way I had. I had received probably Korean war gear that had to be updated to the 80s standard. So how much were painted repented? Chin straps were changed almost. We're changed almost as often as you wanted to change. It cause you can just go buy a sweatband origin strap at clothing sales for a couple of dollars. And everybody wanted to have the newest and the best, so all of those old. Now vintage or antique chinstraps and sweatbands and helmet liners. Were basically all changed out as the soldier thought that he might need a new one. So I guess basically what I'm saying is you could have a World War 2 helmet with 80s, chin strap and. Turn in your Korean war era, helmet liner to get and then basically you would change your sweatband out. Add the new naturede strap and you were good to go. Because, as any soldier with no dirt or rust on any of your gear is a no no. And you would get gigged for that. I think I got a few gigs on my helmet along the way. Just wanted to throw that out there. So I don't. Your videos were great and i've been collecting now for about 55 years thanks

Great informational video thanks man!

Some corrections/extra info: - Dana/Parish and R.J. Stampings helmets have similar heat stamps with smaller font numbers going up to 4 digits. - WW2 rear seam stainless rim helmets can exist just like front seam manganese rim helmets can. This is often attributed to company error. - R.J. Stampings helmets are the only type of helmet to use stainless steel rims after WW2.

Great family heirlooms. Never let them go.

Do you live in Rockingham, North Carolina? If so I'm 45 min from you. Nice collection