Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is very difficult type of helmet to find, known as the Chars de Combat helmet or Armored vehicle helmet. Features a steel skull shell with rear visor and front leather brow pad. These helmets were issued to armored vehicle and tank crews in the French military before and during Word War Two.
The helmet features much of its original paint and has an RF (République Française) flaming bomb badge on the front, the standard badge for the French Army. It also retains its original brown leather ear flapped liner with belt buckle style buckle, similar to British Dispatch rider helmets. Size is approximately a US 7 (56cm).
A scarce helmet to find and in very good service used condition. There is deterioration to the leather liner, and the front brow pad is partly detached from the shell. It also hs some dents in the top. A helmet certainly encountered on the Maginot Line and at the early days of the fall of France 1940. This helmet has loads of patina and is ready to display!
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