WWII “Top Pots” Restored Original M1/M2 Paratrooper Helmet W/ Liner, 551st PIB / PIR

WWII “Top Pots” 551st PIB / PIR Front Seam Helmet W/ Liner

Westinghouse Electric Corporation liner.

For the most authentic museum quality restored original M2 D bale paratrooper helmet shell for sale – look no further!

This is a totally restored original US WWII M1 helmet that has been converted to represent the rare M2 paratrooper model worn by the US Army airborne units during WWII. This M2 helmet conversion has been conducted with painstaking detail.

So, if you are looking for a US WWII D ring helmet, this is your helmet. This particular helmet represents the earlier model, which would have been used in combat operations such as the D Day jump into Normandy. This is simply the best WWII M2 helmet for re-enactors, air-soft clubs and collectors made exclusively by Top Pots.

This restored and converted original WWII M2 helmet is complete for sale as shown and includes the following

- Original WWII era M2 helmet shell (FRONT SEAM… CONVERTED TO AN M2)

- Correct FS34087 lustreless olive drab exterior paint

- Cork textured

- D Bale chinstrap loops

This is the finest restored US WWII M2 helmet available and would make a fine addition to any film production, collection, costume, display, re-enactment impression or special gift.

The 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion (551st PIB) was, for many years, a little-recognized airborne forces unit of the United States Army, raised during World War II, that fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Originally commissioned to take the French Caribbean island of Martinique, they were shipped instead to Western Europe. With an initial strength of 800 officers and enlisted men, the remaining 250 members of the Battalion were ordered on 7 January 1945 to attack the Belgian village of Rochelinval over open ground and without artillery support. During the successful assault the unit lost more than half its remaining men. The Battalion was inactivated on 27 January 1945 and the remaining 110 survivors were absorbed into the 82nd Airborne Division. Virtually nothing of the unit's history was known to the American public until the 1990s when renewed interest prompted its veterans to seek recognition for their costly success at Rochelinval. The battalion was awarded a Presidential Unit Citation in 2001.

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