G'day guys
can someone tell me what this is.
so far i have one thing im thinkingf and that is its american







cheers

How about some pics of the straps?

Duuuh, god ralph are u blind mate
:-) i added that after u told me to, good idea mate like u said sometimes they make the difference between helmets.
cheers

How about another pic of you wearing it? :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Looks like a US M1 helmet with balistic liner. POST ww2 I would guess post Korea as well and probably used no later than mid 70s in this particular configuration later helmets have a different liner configureation and chin straps. HTH
cheers,
Bryan

Looks to be your standard 60's- early 80's US Military brain bucket. Kind of looks like my old one without the camo cover.

Later
Dave

oh good so it is a Nam helmet after all
ok i took some pics of me in the helmet, lol....if anyone actually wants to see my charming good looks and cheeky grin tell me and ill post em :-) :-) :-)

p.s. my apologies for having the herald in the background, just happened to be there

Looks like a generic American Style steel helmet with plastic (GRP ?) liner. Looks much like what I had to wear in the Dutch Army in 89/90..

Cheers
Henk

Post your mug in the tin hat over in the what yous guys look like thread........ give us all a good laugh young Jedi...... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) Good to see you made it through New Years Eve...... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

hej
the strap also looks like the ones The Royal Danish Army used in the 70's-90's.

valle

What you have there is a vietnam-later produced M-1 helmet.

Typical features include...
1.seam on the rim is at the rear, a modification to the original M-1 effective in 1944.
2.swivel bales, replace the original "fixed" bales in 1943
3.The liner is interesting, the suspension is riveted,but has the late version suspension, basically an early version of the final version of the M-1 helmet liner.
4.chinstrap is attached to the bales by steel clips, a modification made at about the korea and later period.
5.your leather sweatband is missing the metal spring clips to hold it to the webbing, is that electrical tape holding it on?

:-) Yep, good ol' black duct tape!

one note, that liner material wasn't really around until the early 70's and lasted till 1988 when M-1 helmet production ended. If you really wanted a vietnam helmet, I'd replace the liner with an earlier liner, made of the "brownish" impregnated fabric, with the same suspension, and the mitchell reversable helmet cover.

As far as the actual pot goes, yeah its a nam era helmet.