Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely captured, battle-torn & damaged example of the classic Japanese Type 90 Tetsubo (鉄帽 - "steel cap") army helmet, also colloquially called the tetsukabuto ( 鉄 冑 "steel helmet") by Japanese troops. This example was certainly taken by an American soldier, who removed the star and painted a Rising Sun Japanese flag to the front.
Features include:
- No metal star.
- Relic three pad leather liner, with all three pads still intact, although it is disconnected at several points, but it is still attached at two spots. None of the three pads have pillows. There is no size making we can find. The soldier appears to have attached a chinstrap from something else, but it still looks the part.
- Period repaint with very heavy battle wear, showing the "blue" manganese steel underneath the helmet. The liner fittings have oxidation as well.
- Approximate size is 7 1/4 (58cm).
A nice battle-damaged helmet painted with the Rising Sun flag. These helmets are continuing to become harder and harder to find on the market, especially captured ones like this. This example is worthy of any WWII collection.
The Japanese Type 90 Helmet
The Imperial Japanese Army was the official ground based armed force of Imperial Japan from 1871 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of War, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor of Japan as supreme commander of the army and the navy. Later an Inspectorate General of Military (Army) Aviation, became the third agency with oversight over the army.
During wartime or national emergencies, the nominal command functions of the emperor would be centralized in an Imperial General Headquarters (IGHQ), an ad-hoc body consisting of the chief and vice chief of the Army General Staff, the minister of war, the chief and vice chief of the Naval General Staff, the inspector general of military aviation, and the inspector general of military training.
The Japanese Tetsubo, also colloquially called the tetsukabuto ("steel helmet") by troops, was a mainstay of the Imperial Japanese Army from its creation in 1932. Its construction from inferior chrome-molybdenum steel limited its ability to protect the wearer from gunfire or shrapnel.
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