Originally Posted by MasterSolenoid
Originally Posted by Virtus_Probi
Originally Posted by Lapham3
It a WW2 era US helmet liner
My dad (a WWII vet) had an old helmet liner laying around when I was a kid...you can bet that thing got a ton of use in play battles back then.
Growing up in the 60's, we had a German WW2 helmet my Father got from somewhere / made of steel.
We also played a lot with it.
Years later, my Brother traded it to a neighbor for something.
The neighbor wore it while riding his motorcycle.
You guessed it, the Police stopped him and took the helmet.
We also had the nose-piece from a WW1 bomb / my Father acquired that also.
It was made of wood and brass and you could turn the graduated dial.
Fun things to have laying around the house when your young.
Dad also had an empty bazooka round (the original small one, not the 3.5" super bazooka), a 40mm Bofors round, a 37mm shell from an AT gun or light tank, and some 20mm rounds.
Of course, the bazooka round made a perfect battlefield missile for my GI Joes.
The 20mm rounds kind of creeped me out after my dad told me story about a guy sitting near him in a halftrack getting hit in the back of the head with a German equivalent and the chaos that caused. I couldn't imagine a round with that heft hitting someone in the head at really high speed...a helmet sure wouldn't make a difference there. The horrors of war...Dad got a purple heart due to facial injuries from that explosion.