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  2. Pith helmet - Wikipedia

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    The pith helmet, also known as the safari helmet, salacot, [a] sola topee, sun helmet, topee, and topi[b] is a lightweight cloth-covered helmet made of sholapith. [1] The pith helmet originates from the Spanish military adaptation of the native salakot headgear of the Philippines. [2][3] It was often worn by European travellers and explorers in ...

  3. American fiber helmet - Wikipedia

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    Unit cost. $1.36 (1941) [1] The American fiber helmet (also known as the American pith helmet, safari helmet, tropical helmet, sun helmet, elephant helmet, or pressed fiber helmet) is a type of sun helmet made of pressed fiber material that has been used as part of the military uniform by various branches and units of the United States Armed ...

  4. British Army uniform and equipment in World War I - Wikipedia

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    The Pith helmet is a lightweight helmet made of cork or pith, with a cloth cover, designed to shade the wearer's head from the sun. The type used in the First World War was the 1902 Wolseley pattern helmet. They were widely worn by British Empire troops fighting in the Middle East and Africa. It had a wide pocket on the outer helmet.

  5. Custodian helmet - Wikipedia

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    The custodian helmet is a type of helmet worn predominantly by male police officers in the United Kingdom and within certain other places around the world. [1] First used by the Metropolitan Police in London in 1863, the BBC labelled the custodian helmet a "symbol of British law enforcement". [2] They are worn by male constables and sergeants ...

  6. Pickelhaube - Wikipedia

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    The use of the Pickelhaube spread rapidly to other German principalities. Oldenburg adopted it by 1849, Baden by 1870, and in 1887, the Kingdom of Bavaria was the last German state to adopt the Pickelhaube (since the Napoleonic Wars, they had had their own design of helmet called the Raupenhelm, a Tarleton helmet).

  7. Sholapith - Wikipedia

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    Sholapith. Sholapith or shola pith (also referred to as shola and Indian cork) is a dried milky-white spongey plant matter from Aeschynomene species. It can be pressed and shaped into objects of art, or for practical use. [1] It is the "pith" used for pith helmets, so giving them their name.

  8. Uniforms of the German Army (1935–1945) - Wikipedia

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    German pith helmet in olive drab Erwin Rommel and officers, 1942. The M40 Tropical tunics of the Afrikakorps, later authorized for summer field wear in Southern Europe, were basically the same cut as the standard army uniform but with open collar and lapels, and made of a medium-weight olive-drab cotton twill which in service faded to khaki ...

  9. Uniforms of the Imperial Japanese Army - Wikipedia

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    Meiji 19 1886 version. Parade uniform of Japanese military attaché, Major General Onodera Makoto, 1930s. Resembling the Imperial German Army M1842/M1856 dunkelblau uniform, the Meiji 19 1886 version tunic was the dark blue, single-breasted, had a low standing collar and no pockets. It was worn with matching straight trousers and a kepi (red ...

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