Brilliant video, many thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

Great info thanks mate

Definitely Military Police steel pot. After hand washing your cover, before it dries, stretch it back onto the steel pot. Work out all the wrinkles. When it dries, it will fit like a second skin!

Very interesting....thank you.... I picked up one of these in the 90's at an army surplus shop....they were plentiful then. I thought mine was 80's era but it has the chin strap the same as yours so it must be Vietnam era, right! Great video 👍

Very good of you to take the time to make such a detailed and informative video. Keep up the good work. 👍👍👍

You can't tell anything decisive with the headband. Those things got dirty with sweat and you couldn't clean the leather. We just took the old one to the supply room and DX'd it for a new one.

The only helmet liners I've seen with the white stripe were the ones the MP's wore.

That 2nd helmet has the "rip stop" fabric camouflage cover.

I have a Ingersoll helmet without a liner and cover or any straps it also has a broken swivel bale it has a yellowish lieutenant rank insignia painted on the front

I picked up a Kershaw bino-prism binoculars from an estate sale last summer. Gentleman was a B-17 navigator with the 15th Air Force. They are dated 1942 as best that I can tell. My neck strap is exactly the same.

My father was in the Vietnam War and he knew of my interest in uniforms and headwear so he brought me a complete M1 helmet with cover, camouflaged boonie hat, and a brand new set of tiger stripe uniforms.

I had only the Korean War vintage camo cover for the longest time and only in 2024 I managed to pick up one from WWII.

I use these 6 x 30 binoculars as my go-to for spotting dolphins in the sea near where I live. The wide field and low angular displacement makes that simples. If you need to home in on a dolphin once spotted, keep a pair of 10 x 50s handy and use those.

Hi Great video. Just like mine. Could you explain how the graticules work? Also have you ever had sight of an instruction manual? Many thanks. Best wishes David

At last ive found someone who owns these! Mine are exactly the same and were issued to my dad. He was a desert rat in WW11. There are many inscriptions hard to read but one looks like G.A.L.IRWIN or D.A. L. any ideas? The leather case ive sadly misplaced but looks the same as yours. Ty 😊

I really like the boonie hat. I always wanted one like it since I was a little kid. I'm 40 now. I remember my uncle wearing his around outside when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest hat. I now wonder if he still has it. Thanks for the videos. You have some nice helmets. I just got my 8th helmet. 7 M1 helmets and one from 1985 right after they switched to the psagat helmet. It seems just as heavy as the M1

I just recently got a pretty beat-up M1 helmet with the front seam and a heat stamp number of 80A on it. I've asked several people in my family and a few associates what they thought it said with a magnifying glass with a light on it. And my cell phone has a magnifying app. I first thought it was 180A or 780A, but closer looking, I noticed it looked like a scratch in front of the 80A. I asked the others I mentioned, and they said their self it looked like a scratch and only 80A. Have you heard of that low of a heat stamp number? This helmet I stripped the paint off, it was so much different paints on it that I decided to do a restore on the helmet

Sewn on chinstraps with the J-hook and ball release were late WWII era and the metal hangers the chinstraps went on were 1950's.

great video thanks for sharing! where can someone find a good reproduction of a USMC ww2 cover?

Great vid, very informative, thanks

I've got a umal 1952 m1 helmet but don't know if it's rare

O can't believe how expensive those old helments are today.

Why does yours fit but mine doesn't fit, is it the size of the cape or the hat? My helmet is the model. M1 Combat helmet i am from thailand

Beautiful helmet, you can spot it as a schlueter right off the bat with the cube still on. In pictures of my dad in Vietnam, his steel pot was a schlueter, near identical to yours

I have a m1 helmet form tarawa and iwo jima with blood

I have a helmet cover with blood beacuse is from tarawa

I think mines original cover it has blood on it

Hello! I loved your video and I wanted to know where did you find your helmet cover?

Fantastic Video. I really leaned a lot from watching this. Thanks 👍🏻

Hello. Thanks for the walk through. I have been curious about something inside the liner you may be able to help with. About 15:28, in your "Helmet Liner Inside" section, you see a metal nipple on each sides of the liner. Any idea what they are? Does something attach to them? I haven't seen anything attached to them before. When I see these for sale they are usually missing the nape strap and the chin strap usually isn't complete, common for the sweat band to be missing too or at least missing the leather.

Fantastic video for the new M1 collector 😊I’ve just purchased my first M1 ww2 Helmet with Marine cover & the informative video is a great help thank you, Murray from down under 🇦🇺👍

Good stuff ! I still have my father’s, combat used cover from Vietnam, complete with his personalized, penned graffiti. He was supposed to turn it in when he was leaving the country but he pocketed it instead…I’m glad he did.

Very informative thanks for posting 👍

Thank you very helpful.

What means liner number SH66

Found my grandfathers old gear and found hella shit like helmets flak vests and backpacks

So what about the solid green helmet cover?

Hello! I recently brought a Vietnam war era helmet it had a paratrooper liner. The shell was grey it seemed to be painted over two times it was green then two times repainted grey. I have no idea what to do.

Amazing how a guy could talk for 8 minutes about a pair of binoculars!

hey man i recently got my hands on an m1 helmet that my grandpa had im pretty sure its vietnam era but the liner on the inside at the top says M4 can you tell me what that means by any chance?

I got my M1 helmet here in Germany very easy because in the early years the Bundeswehr used U.S. equipment too including the helmets. Just had to order the Vietnam cover for it

Would the “P” mark on the chin strap date it in the Vietnam era?

Would the “P” on the chin strap date the helpmate to the Vietnam era as an airborne?

We’re could you find a helmet liner

Please remove the Schleuter helmet from the lovely Marmac ( M11) nam liner and super twill cotton Mitchell cover, buy a 1950's or 60's helmet to go with them . Take the awful 1960's chin straps off and replace ( bar tacked) chin straps ... this is a very interesting collection of bits and pieces .... yes , ww2 lids were used on Vietnam, but they went through a repurposing program, where they were stripped and refinished with contemporary paint and sand texture ( I have 6 in stock ) Post war lids are easy and cheap to find , ww2 lids aren't, non of these bits belong together

Why don’t you oil the leather? I’ve taken dry dry dry leather and made it feel brand new again. Still looks the same as well.

Great video

Did marines wear the brown side as much as the green side because i bought one and it looks to be the person wore the brown side more as the green side looks like it had rubbed on the steel pot. I am making a vietnam war kit for the 1/9 marines and do you think it would be fine if i used the brown side instead of the green side even though it is not the time they would usually wear it.