Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This sun helmet, we believe, is made of a pressed bamboo fiber and is similar in design to the Type 98 sun helmets. This theater made sun helmet features a dark brown cloth cover, stitched with 6 panels and a thin brown leather band going around the circumference of the helmet. On the front is the original pentagonal brass army star insignia pin. The liner/suspension system features a 1 ½ inch wide cloth sweatband with 6 “fingers'' and a top adjustment string. The chinstrap is leather, still soft and in serviceable working condition without damage. The inside cloth covering is almost like a dark mustard yellow colored cloth which appears to have been glued during the helmet's manufacturing process. Overall condition of this helmet is incredible and displays no signs of damage or heavy wear. This helmet shows signs of being worn, but has definitely been taken care of since and during WWII. The size is approximately 7 ¾.
This is a one-of-a-kind must have in your WWII Pacific Theater collection, you may never see another like it!
Pith/sun helmets were widely worn during the First World War by British, Belgian, French, Austrian-Hungarian and German troops fighting in the Middle East and Africa. During the 1930s, the locally recruited forces maintained in the Philippines, (consisting of the army and a gendarmerie), used sun helmets mostly made out of compressed coconut fiber called "Guinit". The Axis Second Philippine Republic's military, known as the Bureau of Constabulary, as well as guerrilla groups in the Philippines also wore this headdress.
Helmets of this style (but without true pith construction) were used as late as the Second World War by Japanese, European and American military personnel in hot climates. Included in this category are the sun helmets worn in Ethiopia and North Africa by Italian troops, the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army, Union Defence Force, and NSDAP Germany's Afrika Korps, as well as similar helmets used to a more limited extent by U.S. and Japanese forces in the Pacific Theater.
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