Original U.S. WWI America Flag Etched British Mark I Brodie Helmet by James Dixon & Sons Ltd of Sheffield British Ordnance Without padding

Without padding

The leather is somewhat soft

with some of the red primer coat showing

rocket-powered human-guided kamikaze attack aircraft employed by Japan against Allied ships towards the end of the Pacific War during World War II

Original U.S. WWI America Flag Etched British Mark I Brodie Helmet by James Dixon & Sons Ltd of Sheffield British Ordnance Without paddingOriginal Item: Only One Available. When America was drawn into the European conflict it possessed no steel helmets of its own. They looked to other nations for ideas and selected the British helmet as the most suitable. Britain supplied about half a million helmets to the Americans before production of an American version was started in the U. S. This is a fantastic, genuine Great War British Mark I Brodie helmet complete with its original liner and