Description
WW1 US Doughboy Helmet
The army of the United States had no steel helmet available when it entered the war in June 1917; therefore 400,000 British helmets were supplied to the Americans to be used until such time as they could manufacture their own. This batch of 400,000 were issued from between July to November and were of the MKI type, with the US later copying the British style, giving there’s the designation of the ‘M-1917 Steel Helmet’, and supplying some further 2,700,000 by the time the war had ended. Identical in many ways to its British counterpart, the M-1917 featured some refinements that distinguished it from the MKI: 1.