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The wz. 31 was an all-metal one-piece helmet with a distinctive peaked visor and a slight "skirt." It was covered with either plain or Salamandra matte paint.Most helmets were covered with a thick layer of lead tetroxide and then painted with standard all-military khaki, with some of them painted grey, greyish green or navy blue (the latter worn by the police).
The Helmet Model Number 5, intended to replace the M1917 but not adopted. At the entry of the United States into World War I, the US military was without a combat helmet; initially US troops arriving in Europe were issued with British Mkl helmets, and those integrated with French units were given French M15 Adrian helmets.
Helmet Steel Airborne Troop; Jeep cap; Kepi; M1 helmet; M1C helmet; M2 helmet; M38 Tanker helmet; Mk III helmet; Papakhi; Patrol cap; Peaked cap; Pith helmet; RAC helmet; Rogatywka; Sailor cap; Slouch hat; Soviet helmets during World War II; Stahlhelm (Used by the National Revolutionary Army) Tam o' Shanter; Tent cap; Turban; Type B Helmet ...
Most notably, the company is remembered for its World War II military helmets and helmet liners used by soldiers in the United States Army, Marines, and Navy. Hawley Products is the original designer of the M1 steel helmet liner. [3] The company is also one of the two original manufacturers of the M1 steel helmet liner, alongside General Fibre ...
Soviet soldiers in SSh-40 helmets at 1945 Victory Parade. The SSh-40 was the most commonly seen in-service helmet used by the Soviet Union during World War II. [citation needed] The only external difference between the SSh-39 and the SSh-40 was the six rivets near the bottom of the helmet, as opposed to the three near the top of the SSh-39 shell.
During World War II the first flight nurses uniform consisted of a blue wool battle dress jacket, blue wool trousers and a blue wool men's style maroon piped garrison cap. The uniform was worn with either the ANC light blue or white shirt and black tie. After 1943 the ANC adopted olive drab service uniforms similar to the newly formed WAC.
United States Air Force Pararescuemen jump at half the height of a typical HALO/HAHO insertion 2eme REP Legionnaires HALO jump from a C-160.. High-altitude military parachuting, or military free fall (MFF), is a method of delivering military personnel, military equipment, and other military supplies from a transport aircraft at a high altitude via free-fall parachute insertion.
The SSh-36 was worn by Soviet soldiers in several campaigns of the late 1930s and 1940s, including the Khalkin Gol campaign against the Japanese in 1939 (giving it the nickname "Khalkingolka"), [2] the Finnish Winter War of 1939–1940, the 1939 invasion of Poland, the 1940 invasions of the Baltic states and Bessarabia, and in World War II, or as it is known in Russia, the Great Patriotic War.