Named M34 Luftwaffe Fire Brigade helmet.

[Eric Zentner]

Is that the expected bird decal on a fire brigade helmet? I'm not up on my fire brigade helmets.

Yes it is and here is a link to Jim's early ones in gold..............https://www.google.com/url?q=https:/...XuPIH4xrxhDhog......................


Eric

[KradSpam]

I like it too Eric, it has a good look IMO. The ones I've seen usually have the gold decal though. Do you have any pics of others of the type using this decal?

[Eric Zentner]

Here is a few.


Eric

[cricketchris1944]

Great pictures Eric.
chris

[KradSpam]

I really hate to say it, but the more I look at it the eagle is looking a bit odd to me..... The detail in the feathers when you zoom in is much more than I've normally seen and the beak is quite different, or have I just missed this variation? I'm more than happy to be wrong and learn something

The eagle on the right is also from an M34.



Thoughts?

[DougB]

I've never seen an eagle that looks like that before.

[Eric Zentner]

Well this could get interesting then. I have never seen a known fake either like it.

Here is a inside pic.
Eric

[Good Pwny]

I highly doubt it is a fake either. Like medals for example, there were multiple manufactures of adlers. Also, I doubt the 80 yr old Pvt who brought it back faked it, lol.

[Munich]

This is a ww2 Austrian luftwaffe decal.
Very rare usely seen on combat helmet,first on a M34 for me.

[MD Helmets]

I've heard of an Austrian Luftwaffe eagle, but, like Doug, I've never seen one like this. Maybe it is the Austrian variant. I wouldn't know either way.