The flash hider is instead painted with our lovely "gunmetal gray" finish
The underside is finished in an orange/brown hue and has the distinctive black ᛋᛋ doppelte Siegrune (Double Sig/Victory Rune) RZM paint stamp
As there is no cockade on top or star mounted to the front cockade
but the colors are still relatively vibrant
however it does show signs of service use and wear
Original U.S. WWII McCord M1 Fixed Bale Front Seam Helmet with Rare Named Hawley Paper Liner Named to 93rd Bombardment Group Sergeant Doyle Shoup Lock Assembly The flash hider is insteadOriginal Item. One of a Kind. This is a very nice early example of a genuine WWII Front Seam Fixed Bale M1 Helmet made by McCord Radiator, with an extremely rare Hawley pressed paper liner, which is mostly complete, a rare thing to see. The helmet is named to an officer, Michalak, and the rare Hawley liner is well named and marked to Sergeant Doyle E. Shoup, 328th Bombardment Squadron, 93rd Bombardment Group, and later Headquarters, 93rd Bombardment