WWII SSh-40 helmet

Ost-Berlin · 02-15-2009, 08:06 PM

Ok, I'd like to know if there is a real way to differentiate WWII Ssh-40 helmets with early post-war SSh-40 helmets. Beside the stamps which are absent, do you think there is a way to know if this helmet is WWII period? I always believed it's a WWII issued helmet.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 02-15-2009 08:06 PM

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**Soljenitsyne** · 02-17-2009, 09:59 AM

Sorry, post war helmet

Marc

**Dimas** · 02-17-2009, 10:25 AM

Only stamping, color, some details in chinstrap, is difference

Ost-Berlin · 02-17-2009, 06:23 PM

So how this one could be classified as typical post-war helmet? Is the chinstrap or the color wrong? Thanks for your help.

**Soljenitsyne** · 02-18-2009, 09:15 AM

WW2 Soviet Russian helmet

**Adrian Stevenson** · 02-18-2009, 11:26 AM

The glossy shiney material used for the liner pads I think is also a giveaway for post war production.

Cheers, Ade.

**Wesley's Dad** · 02-18-2009, 07:31 PM

The metal tipped chinstrap by my observations is an Ssh-39 (possibly only LMZ and not ZKO) feature and a Postwar Ssh-40 feature. While I will not say "never", I have yet to see an Ssh-40 with positive wartime ID to have a metal termination on the chinstrap.

I would love to be proven wrong here to gain more insight. Just don't offer any "43" dated LMZ "spiders" as proof

Mike