Helmet

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

Hi Keith,
Just spotted the photo on your thread,so I turned around here in my den and looked at my helmet up on my shelf beside my WW2 Canadian helmet.I have the same helmet and liner and it's a heavy sucker compared with the Canadian one..Mine is camo,a dark green interspersed with a dark sand.My father also picked this one up(off the ground)in Holland in the early part of 1945.The helmet is a small size and he said it came from a dead Hitler Youth sniper whose upper body was still hanging out of an upper story window of a building and had been recently taken out by the military police after the town had been secured and the front line had advanced past the town.Anyway,mine was rated at about $ 75 CAN a few years back,not because of it's true value,but the story on how it was obtained and from whom,behind it