M42 Luftwaffe Mail Home Helmet, ET64

**MD Helmets** · 08-03-2014, 06:29 PM

Found this at one of the local antique shops I frequent. It's a little worse for wear with half torn liner, missing one pin and the tip of the strap is gone but mail homes are tough to come by so I had to have it. No collection is complete without a mail home lid. Hope you all like it.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 08-03-2014 06:29 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**Gunny Hartmann** · 08-03-2014, 06:31 PM

Great find!....

**MAP** · 08-03-2014, 06:52 PM

Really really nice. Now, to research the soldier and you have the whole story and a preserved piece of history!

Michael

**KradSpam** · 08-03-2014, 07:06 PM

Nice mate, cool to see it with the label. I see lots of WW1 lids with them but not so many WW2.

**ObKrieger** · 08-03-2014, 07:15 PM

Very nice 35th Infantry Division bringback.

**ObKrieger** · 08-03-2014, 07:16 PM

His enlistment record:

NARA - AAD - Page not found

**ObKrieger** · 08-03-2014, 07:26 PM

Looks like he was Mark A. Rooney, born March 2nd, 1921, and died on May 22nd, 1998 in Fulton Co., Georgia.

P.S. Send me your address so I can get you the 1,000 post helmet.

**MD Helmets** · 08-03-2014, 07:26 PM

Thank you. Damn Mo, you're quick! Btw, is your inbox a little less full so I can send you my address, or did I already send it to you? The days are running together.

**ObKrieger** · 08-03-2014, 07:29 PM

Let me clean it out real quick. I tend to let them build. lol

**FALLSCHIRMJAGER** · 08-03-2014, 07:36 PM

Hi Todd, that's a nice helmet, especially still having it's mail back "tag" still attached. I have never seen a mail back helmet from our British forces. I don't know if us brit's even did it to be honest. Maybe as we were so close to home our boys just brought them back themselves when on leave? Leon.