Comments on: Book Review: M-1 Helmet of the WW2 US GI http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/book-review-m-1-helmet-ww2-us-gi Get the Most from Your Antiques & Collectibles Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Russ Cross http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/book-review-m-1-helmet-ww2-us-gi/comment-page-1#comment-1452 Russ Cross Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:42:56 +0000 http://blog.worthpoint.com/?p=1383914#comment-1452 Thanks for your review of the "M1 Helmet" book. I have a M1 helmet that my uncle Leo Kanawyer, 1st Calvary Division, brought back from the Phillipines at the end of WW2 and gave to me (I was about 5years old at the time. It has the 1st Cav emblem on the steel helmet and also on the liner. I've had the helmet for about 60 years now and it is in great shape. I learned while researching helmets on eBay that there is a number on the inside of the steel pot which can be used to determine the date of manufacture, however I don't know the code. My helmet is stamped 781B...would you know what that code would tell me about when the helmet was made? Thanks for any help you could provide and thanks for the great review (I think I may have to buy that book!!) Thanks for your review of the “M1 Helmet” book. I have a M1 helmet that my uncle Leo Kanawyer, 1st Calvary Division, brought back from the Phillipines at the end of WW2 and gave to me (I was about 5years old at the time. It has the 1st Cav emblem on the steel helmet and also on the liner. I’ve had the helmet for about 60 years now and it is in great shape. I learned while researching helmets on eBay that there is a number on the inside of the steel pot which can be used to determine the date of manufacture, however I don’t know the code. My helmet is stamped 781B…would you know what that code would tell me about when the helmet was made? Thanks for any help you could provide and thanks for the great review (I think I may have to buy that book!!)

]]> By: Chris Hughes http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/book-review-m-1-helmet-ww2-us-gi/comment-page-1#comment-14 Chris Hughes Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:27:00 +0000 http://blog.worthpoint.com/?p=1383914#comment-14 I have attached Pieter Oosterman's emailed response to my review of his book. "Thanks so much for your great review of my M-1 HELMET book. To make the book was a labor of love. I am happy you enjoy it. There are several reasons why I didn't include the swivel bale helmet in the book. The main reason being the fact I don't care too much about the swivel bale helmet (although I do have a couple of marked swivel bales in my collection). I am very interested in the development of the M-1 helmet, the liners in particular and all the variations. When the M-1 helmet reached its final stage, about mid 1943, besides the introduction of the swivel bales nothing changed really. Plus I think that most ETO used helmets are fixed bales. I just don't find the discussions about the actual introduction of the swivel bale, magnese rim and rear seam very interesting. Besides all this there simply wasn't enough room in the book to include the swivel bale. I did not want to sacrifice any parts of the fixed bale helmet because my intention was to put that down good and complete. But who knows......" I have attached Pieter Oosterman’s emailed response to my review of his book.

“Thanks so much for your great review of my M-1 HELMET book. To make the book was a labor of love. I am happy you enjoy it.

There are several reasons why I didn’t include the swivel bale helmet in the book. The main reason being the fact I don’t care too much about the swivel bale helmet (although I do have a couple of marked swivel bales in my collection). I am very interested in the development of the M-1 helmet, the liners in particular and all the variations. When the M-1 helmet reached its final stage, about mid 1943, besides the introduction of the swivel bales nothing changed really. Plus I think that most ETO used helmets are fixed bales. I just don’t find the discussions about the actual introduction of the swivel bale, magnese rim and rear seam very interesting. Besides all this there simply wasn’t enough room in the book to include the swivel bale. I did not want to sacrifice any parts of the fixed bale helmet because my intention was to put that down good and complete.

But who knows……”

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