M1C helmet Vietnam War era

**Redstalker** · 01-21-2018, 09:14 AM

Had this helmet cover for a couple of months now and have been looking for a suitable helmet to pair it up with. It reads ‘God is my Jumpmaster’ so I assume it has a connection with a US airborne regiment. It also has other graffiti as can be seen in the pics but all done on the fall side of the cover. The Mitchell cover has the contract info to date it to 1965. The helmet is manufactured by Ingersoll who received contracts in 1967. The liner is made by MARMAC and is the nylon version of the type II liner and has the date 24MAR64. They were making these type II liners with duck cotton and resin up until 1965 and these were transitional liners until production of the nylon type II liners took over.
Thanks for looking guys Cool militaria

**Watchdog** · 01-21-2018, 10:54 AM

Nice one!

I have to say I like these and they do display very well.

I don't specialise in these but I somehow ended up with a few on my shelf

Here's another which I am sure I posted before but it does no harm to add comparison;

Regards

Mark

PS Having a file selection problem with my PC. Two of those pics, the liner exterior and liner stamp are from a different helmet and I can't delete them for some reason. Sorry!