Original U.S. WWI Named 80th Division Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” - Complete 18th Century It measures 20 1/2" in

It measures 20 1/2" in overall height

military intelligence criticized the weight of the weapon along with the inclusion of the fully automatic feature which it considered "ineffectual for all practical purposes"

Below this is the Ordnance flaming bomb and date of manufacture 1912

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Original U.S. WWI Named 80th Division Field Artillery Painted British Made M1917 Doughboy Helmet - “Blue Ridge Division” - Complete 18th Century It measures 20 1/2" inOriginal Item. One of a Kind. When America was drawn into the European conflict it possessed no steel helmets of its own. They looked to other nations for ideas and selected the British helmet as the most suitable. Britain supplied about half a million helmets to the Americans before production of an American version was started in the U. S. This is a fantastic, genuine Great War hand painted 80th Infantry Division Field Artillery British made helmet,