Hi, Steve !
Regarding your #18 on page 2:
I´m not collecting helmets actually, but I like them ! ...
Today´s flea market -find, this "FJ-60", Helm "M1A1", (Infantry), "modifiziert", mit "Innenausstattung 60", ("I 60"), is this the correct term/designation ?
I took pity on this pot and bought it for an amount of Euro´s 10,-- (eight and a half GBP).
Cheers,
R.
Good morning gents,
I posted an M62m here;
BW M62m. Is this one unusual?
in the hope of explaining why it has two side rivet but only one is for the chinstrap. The other (rear-most) rivet serves no purpose other than blocking the hole.
There are two in this thread (#18 - Battle Gear and #82 - Reibert) but no reference to the extra rivet. Can anyone offer an explanation?
Regards
Mark
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Hi, mates, wanna show you this, relic, M1A1LL, obviously, "The Servant of Some Masters" ...
Interesting, the, (very simple), modification to save the chinstrap, (for me), also from interest the unit, ( 2/381 ), manually written in the liner with a biro.
I don´t think, 2/381 is a Bundeswehr Airborne unit, so ...
Cross reference to world steel helmets post
Early Bundeswehr M60 Stahlhelm
And another cross reference which I thought I had already done
Early Bundeswehr Zweiteilige (two part) Stahlhem
Regards
Mark
Last edited by Watchdog; 01-12-2021 at 01:13 PM. Reason: typ
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature with no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Hi, Steve, great helmet display, congrats !
If it´s from interest, some images of my Bundeswehr M826 there:
BW M826 Aramid
Some more M1A1LL helmets there:
M1A1 LL Para helmet
Hello,
I really don't know where this "M60" designation comes from.
You have a nice non-reworked West German M1A1 helmet with "FJ60" interior. Manufactured in 1959. The model has been manufactured since 1958 and introduced in a large-scale test. So it can't be a 1960 model at all.
"FJ60" also has nothing to do with a year. This is just a manufacturer designation of Hans Römer Neu-Ulm. 1958 to 1961 shells were supplied by the Swedish company Eskilstuna Stalpressings A.B., Pressbolaget Eskilstuna, Esklistuna.
3 59 56 stands for:
3 - Manufacturer: Eskilstuna Stalpressings A.B., Pressbolaget Eskilstuna,
59 - year of manufacture 1959
56 - lot number
From 1959 a label was attached with the handling of the adjustment. Most of these have fallen off.
I think the camouflage net is Danish.
In the early Bundeswehr, nets similar to the WWII nets or helmet covers were used.
Regards
Thanks Sleepwalker for your post.
The Swedish supply is interesting.
Were the shells imported for the rapid expansion of the Bundeswehr?
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