Original WWII Italian Regia Marina Navy M33 Helmet with Interesting Painted Naval Unit Insignia - Torn Liner & Chinstrap Category_Fusee Spring & Cover At the start of WW1

At the start of WW1 Vickers MGs were equipped with canvas water buckets but these were soon found to be unsuitable and these cans soon adopted in their place

with a bit of color darkening from age and use

relieved the weight of the loaded magazines from around the waist

in the Clark Field complex on the island of Luzon

LOT MA 12-52

Original WWII Italian Regia Marina Navy M33 Helmet with Interesting Painted Naval Unit Insignia - Torn Liner & Chinstrap Category_Fusee Spring & Cover At the start of WW1Original Item: Only One Available. The M33 Helmet (Elmetto Mod. 33 in Italian) is a steel combat helmet designed in the 1930s in Italy, and was the standard combat helmet of the Regio Esercito up to World War II, and of the Esercito Italiano well into the Cold War. Designed by Nicola Leszl for the Mussolini Government, these have become extremely hard to find on the collectors market today, especially WWII examples that have not been refurbished. This