442ndRCT Soldier's Forum

by **Opie74** on Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:31 am

also for those with big feet like me there is also an 11 1/2
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by **davep** on Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:10 pm

Airborne Helmet

I understand that the liner has the extra A-Yoak Straps to which the leather chin cup strap attaches to. My question is the normal straps on the metal helmet itself which are attached to the bales, and they used in an Airborne Helmet configuration?
The reason I ask, is the helmet below seems to have those strap snapped? to the inside wall of the Helmet Liner.

Also on swivel bales, when did those start showing up? We normal ask guys to get fixed bales, because of early war? When did the swivle bales show up for regular infantrymen?

by **barcelonablom** on Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:44 pm

davep wrote:Airborne Helmet

I understand that the liner has the extra A-Yoak Straps to which the leather chin cup strap attaches to. My question is the normal straps on the metal helmet itself which are attached to the bales, and they used in an Airborne Helmet configuration?
The reason I ask, is the helmet below seems to have those strap snapped? to the inside wall of the Helmet Liner.

Also on swivel bales, when did those start showing up? We normal ask guys to get fixed bales, because of early war? When did the swivle bales show up for regular infantrymen?

Yes the airborne helmet shell chinstraps are slightly different. They have an extra length with a button that snaps onto a snap thats riveted into the liner, this helps keep both parts on your head in the jump.

IIRC swivels were mass produced in all versions (in reality a M1C is just an M1 shell with fancy straps, and a gussied up liner) about 1943 and after?