Germany, Luftwaffe. An M40 Stahlhelm, Repurposed Example, by Eisenhüttenwerke Thale A.G. GTRexclude with a winged wagon wheel

with a winged wagon wheel at the base

forty of the Australians were sent to work at the Japanese garrison at Hoban

small tear on the right edge)

with braid and rank shoulder board

1946 to September 30

Germany, Luftwaffe. An M40 Stahlhelm, Repurposed Example, by Eisenhüttenwerke Thale A.G. GTRexclude with a winged wagon wheel(Luftwaffe Stahlhelm M40). An interesting and well preserved Luftwaffe M40 Stahlhelm (steel helmet), constructed of a single sheet of magnetic molybdenum steel retaining a post manufacture, Heer style, apple green paint, with trace amounts of its factory original dark grey paint visible. Three rivets are distributed around the outer circumference for the accommodation of the interior fixtures, while the crown is flanked on each side by an integral