Here I have a liner which was part of five batches (totalling 854,255) contracted to Westinghouse to be camouflaged for use in jungle fighting. Westinghouse used a template to spray these liners with three green tones and a brown tone. In the Quartermaster catalogue of 1943 the liner designation was: Liner, Helmet, M-1, Jungle Troop, Stock No. 74-L-72-25. The reasoning for the camouflage liners were that the steel body of the M-1 as a helmet was to noisy moving around the jungle environment, with branches brushing against it. Wearing just the liner reduced the noise and the reduced weight helped soldiers move more quickly around the jungle where you had to travel light. The risk of shrapnel from artillery barrage were less common in the jungle and again no need to wear a heavy helmet. Production of the jungle liner discontinued in 1943 and around 300,000 liners were repainted back to olive drab.
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