Transitional Gallery
M18 Transitional
This M18 helmet has been restored to look like a
early Third-Reich era helmet complete with a 1918 patternliner and
carbine clip. The early shade of matte fieldgray is usually associated with
helmets from theWeimar era. During the early 1930s many of these
lateWorld War I and Reichwehr helmet were taken fromstorage to equip the
growing Wehrmacht. Many of thesehelmets were seen on German troops entering
theSudetenland and later during the invasion of Poland.
Austrian double decal transitional helmet
M18 helmet retro-fitted by the Germans after 1940 with a rough
textured field
gray finish painted over the original
Apple green finish. Many of these were
pressed into
service during the invasion of France and Russia
when
existing stocks of M35s and M40s were depleted.
M18 Heer transitional helmet fitted with a M27 liner &
chinstrap