US M4A2 Anti Flak helmet

"CLAD IN HIS ARMOR. Normally a good-sized man, Captain Melvin E. Jarvis, Salt Lake City, Utah, pilot of a B-29 "Superfort" of the 307th Bomb Group, based on Okinawa, looks gigantic after donning over 105 pounds of flight gear necessary for combat missions. Captain Jarvis is shown at the controls of his B-29 just prior to take-off on a mission on Communist positions in North Korea" 1951. (NWDNS-342-FH-4A(29066))

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US M1 Paratrooper helmet

"COMBAT CARGO, KOREA -- Paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, seated in the cargo compartment of 314th Troop Carrier Group C-119 "Flying Boxcar," "sweat out" the flight to the dropzone at Munsan-ni, Korea, in March, 1951. This was the second combat airborne assault for the U.S. Air Force aircraft of the 314th Troop Carrier Group since their arrival in the Far East in August, 1950. The first assault was at Sukchon-Sunchon, Korea, in Spetember, 1950, when the 187th was dropped shortly after the Allied landing on the beachhead at Inchon. Dropping paratroopers is only one of the many missions performed by the 314th since they joined the Far East Air Forces two years ago.." [in 1949, ed.] (NWDNS-342-AF-117302AC)

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US M1

"The atomic cloud formed by the detonation seems close enough to touch, and tension gone, Poth and Wilson do a little clowning for the camera." (National Archives, NWDNS-127-N-A325429) At the Atomic Energy Commission Proving Ground, Nevada...Marines prepared to charge an "objective" seconds after an atomic explosion. Twenty-one hundred Marines, commanded by Brigadier General Joseph C. Burger, comprised the largest number of troops to participate in the tests to date, May 1st, 1952.

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Italian M33

Training junior officers of the "Automobilisti" corps, Italy, mid 1960's. (Author's collection)

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US M1

"Vietnam. John Wayne signs Private First Class Fonsell Wofford's helmet during his visit to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, at Chu Lai." (National Archives, NWDNS-127-N-A187201) 20 June,1966.

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US/Canadian M1

Canadian OPFOR (OPposing FORce) soldier wearing reversed M-1 with red triangle (Sentinel 1967, via Roger V. Lucy)

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US M1

"Vietnam....A Sky Trooper from the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) keeps track of the time he has left on his "short time" helmet, while participating in Operation Pershing, near Bong Son." (National Archives, NWDNS-111-SC-647323) 1968.

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Italia, M33

Summer Camp of the State Police in 1970 (5-30 July) at Ferriere (Piacenza). The unit is a batallion of Police cadets from Alessandria (courtesy of Angelo Vacinaletti)

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