Original Rare U.S. WWI 1917 Model 8 Experimental Helmet by Ford Motor Company with Partial Liner Japanese Field Gear 5% of the Civil War

5% of the Civil War production were the earliest model

it was deployed to France where it took part in the fighting on the Western Front until the end of the war in November 1918

She -- it's a letter that I wrote home

Mission 150 was a part of what was called "Big Week" in Defenders of Liberty

with a bit of dust from the years

Original Rare U.S. WWI 1917 Model 8 Experimental Helmet by Ford Motor Company with Partial Liner Japanese Field Gear 5% of the Civil WarOriginal Item: Only One Available. When the United States entered World War I in 1917 it had no steel helmet. The American military turned to Dr. Bashford Dean, an American zoologist and armor expert who served on the board at both the New York Natural History Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to help design a helmet for the soldiers heading to France. One of the later so called "experimental" patterns was the Model 8. It followed the "Model