Item: ON5184
Original U.S. WWI M1917 80th Infantry Division Doughboy Helmet with Camouflage Textured Paint
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Original Item: Only One Available. This is a fantastic genuine Great War hand painted camouflage helmet with the 80th Infantry Division insignia to side. Offered with complete liner but missing chinstrap it features heavily textured has original period colored camouflage textured paint in various shades of red, yellow, black and brown. The shell is maker marked with a stamping on the underside of the rim that reads ZC 89. This is an wonderful identified example of a genuine USGI Great War helmet from an well known infantry division of the US army.
80th Division in WWI:
Activated: September 1917
Overseas: June 1918
Major operations: Battle of the Somme (1918), Meuse-Argonne, Battle of Saint-Mihiel.
Casualties: Total-6,029. (KIA-880; WIA-5,149).
Commanders: Brig. Gen. Herman Hall (27 August 1917), Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite (9 September 1917), Brig. Gen. L. M. Brett (26 November 1917), Brig. Gen. W. P. Richardson (28 December 1917), Brig. Gen. Charles S. Farnsworth (7 January 1918), Brig. Gen. L. M. Brett (14 January 1918), Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite (1 March 1918), Maj. Gen. S. D. Sturgis (22 November 1918).
Inactivated: May 1919.
History
Because of significant common heritage in the past (Indian War, Revolutionary War and Civil War), residents of Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia became the structure of the 80th Division. The 80th Division was organized in August 1917 at Camp Lee, Virginia. The units were made up mostly of men from the above three states.
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