Original U.S. WWI 1917 Model 2 Experimental Helmet by Ford Motor Company with Liner British Militaria The leather straps and fittings

The leather straps and fittings do show some age and cracking

Vietnam 250-2

There is a faint size 61 stamp on one finger

There is light engraving on both locks and most of the metalwork

long after his service in China started

Original U.S. WWI 1917 Model 2 Experimental Helmet by Ford Motor Company with Liner British Militaria The leather straps and fittingsOriginal Item: Only One Available. When the United States entered World War I in 1917 it had no steel helmet. The American military turned to Dr. Bashford Dean, an American zoologist and armor expert who served on the board at both the New York Natural History Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to help design a helmet for the soldiers heading to France. One of the first so called "experimental" patterns was the Model 2. Designed in June of