Original U.S. WWII Named Engineer Painted M1 Schlueter Fixed Bale Front Seam Helmet with Matched Firestone Liner - Lieutenant Painter - Excellent MG 42 Accessories featuring the Communist Red Star

featuring the Communist Red Star

providing a remarkable visual connection between the surviving uniform item and its wartime owner

In World War II it finally took the shape

having come out of an officer's mess in India

Original U.S. WWII Named Engineer Painted M1 Schlueter Fixed Bale Front Seam Helmet with Matched Firestone Liner - Lieutenant Painter - Excellent MG 42 Accessories featuring the Communist Red StarOriginal Item. One of a Kind. This is an outstanding untouched example of an early 1943 Schlueter M1 helmet & matching Firestone liner worn by a Lieutenant Painter of the Engineers. We havent been able to identify Painter, making for a very exciting research project. Schlueter began production of its M 1 helmet shells in January 1943. Schlueter produced only 2,000,000 M 1 helmet shells during the war (both fixed and swivel). They placed an S stamp on