Original German WWII USGI Decorated M40 Army Heer Helmet with Relic Liner & Chinstrap - Stamped Q64 Military Art 197th Field Artillery Regiment and

197th Field Artillery Regiment and the 134th Field Artillery Regiment

which they left in January 1942 to build a critical fueling station in Bora Bora — followed in October by the battalions who landed at North Africa with Operation Torch

and a length of handwoven crude multipurpose twine which has been wrapped around the main pocket of the vest for a very long time

were at war with most of the Plains tribes

a nice memento from the German front

Original German WWII USGI Decorated M40 Army Heer Helmet with Relic Liner & Chinstrap - Stamped Q64 Military Art 197th Field Artillery Regiment andOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a nice salty USGI Bring back example of a German Model 40 Steel helmet, picked up off the battlefield during the war. We are not sure what type of helmet it originally was, though it is blue on the interior under the liner, so it may have been a Luftwaffe helmet. The USGI who captured it painted the entire outside and the inside of the skirt black, and then hand panted a Heer Army style Wehrmachtadler Eagle