Original U.S. WWII Personalized Hawley Paper M1 Helmet Liner with Complete Suspension and Sweatband German SS as well as on the

as well as on the chamber end of the barrel and 523 on the bottom of the feed block/ejector

the holster is correctly secured by brass washer rivets along its entire inner side

) and a Purple Heart

as the sound purportedly signaled to the enemy that the solder's M1 Rifle was empty and they could no longer fire in defense

called the muzzle-swell

Original U.S. WWII Personalized Hawley Paper M1 Helmet Liner with Complete Suspension and Sweatband German SS as well as on theOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent example of a rare Hawley pressed paper M1 Helmet liner. They were only issued in very small numbers during the early days of World War Two. Their structural deficiencies were quickly noted, and the replacement "low pressure" and later "high pressure" liners were put into planning and production shortly after. The Hawley liners were however all that was available during the earliest days of M1