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March 2022 Auction Day 1
Lot 253:
M-1 Combat Liner of the 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division
This is an original M-1 airborne combat liner helmet that was worn by a paratrooper of the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division: from 1944 until the summer of 1945
The liner is by Westinghouse, with darker olive drab “A” yokes with cast buckles. The leather paratrooper chin strap is the first pattern example with five holes.
Each side of the liner was painted with the white spade insignia of the 506th regiment, with a “tic” at the 9 O’ Clock position for the 3rd battalion.
The spade emblems are approximately 45mm tall and 40mm inches wide at the widest points.
One “tic” is 11mm inches long, while the other is 12mm inches long.
Visible front crack about 120mm long
Scratched
"LEWIS" (name of the paratrooper?)
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