US soldier with a captured PAVN steel helmet , judging by the liner it appears to be a Czech M53?
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US soldier with a captured PAVN steel helmet , judging by the liner it appears to be a Czech M53?
here's a North Vietnamese Militia member wearing a East German steel helmet with grey color paint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ggRGlfljs
a heavily damaged Russian model Ssh40 used by the NVA captured in 1969 by a first Cavalry Trooper in the Tay Ninh Province.
The East German M56 steel helmet is one of my favorite cold war era steel helmets, it's actually been used in lots of conflicts during it's history.
Vietnam war, African bush wars, Middle east,...
Here are some seldom seen wartime photos of the North Vietnamese using East German supplied M56 steel helmets, these photos are mostly from the Ho Chi Minh Trail where they did a lot of bombing, so...