Most are not mint, flawless, stored in a shock-proof-vault-just-for-u. These are 40-70 years old and all saw service. helmets are assembled using military surplus steel pots.
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We cannot guarantee these to be completely free of dings, small cracks, scratches, or a rough spots. WARNING! These helmets and liners are NOT new. All steel shells are stripped of their old paint and texture, dents and dings repaired, then repainted in the WWII shade of olive drab, and finally refitted with reproduction chinstraps correct for the wartime era. We use original military issue steel shells and a mix of authentic and reproduction liners (depending on the model) to re-create the WWII versions of this classic helmet. Winston Churchill described the American Army during the war years as a “prodigy of organization… an achievement which soldiers of every other country will always study with admiration and envy.The M-1 helmet was the standard issue combat headgear used by the United States military from 1941 until the late 1980's. The 42nd Division, a National Guard division, was mobilized as an Army of the U.S. The 25th was formed from troops of the Hawaiian Division and was classified as an Army of the U.S. The two airborne divisions, 82nd and 101st, were re-designated Regular Army when converted from infantry to airborne divisions. The numbering of divisions was arranged as: 1 to 25 for the Regular Army 26 to 45 for the National Guard and 46 to 106 for the Army of the U.S. Army were part of either of four organizations: the Regular Army, National Guard, Organized Reserve, or Army of the United States. Seven divisions served in both the Mediterranean and European Theaters.ĭivisions of the U.S. Of the three major theaters of operation during the war, 22 divisions were deployed to the Pacific, 15 divisions to the Mediterranean, and 61 divisions to Europe. Non-divisional forces included service units and some additional combat troops not initially assigned to a division. About 1,200,000 personnel were assigned to divisions and 1,500,000 to non-divisional units. But only 2.75 million, or a third, were in the AGF. By 1945, operating strength reached 8.3 million. In the summer of 1943 the decision was made to build the Army to an effective strength of 7.7 million personnel.
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However, unlike some countries, the American divisions would be maintained near full strength throughout the war. The US Army would eventually mobilize 91 divisions as compared to 120 for the Japanese, 313 German, 50 Commonwealth, and 550 Russian divisions. The AAF grew to a peak of over 2.4 million personnel and approximately 80,000 aircraft in 1944. In 1941, the Army Air Corps had just 152,125 personnel. Growing the Air Force from 152,000 to 2.4 Million In March 1942, the Army was re-organized into three forces: the Army Ground Forces (AGF), Army Air Forces (AAF), and the Army Service Forces (ASF),the latter included the corps of engineers, quartermaster corps, medical corps, signal corps, chemical warfare service, ordnance department, and the military police corps. This authorized the Army’s strength to be increased to 1.4 million men-500,000 Regulars, 270,000 Guardsmen, and 630,000 Selectees. Then, with the growing war in Europe, the US Government approved the Selective Service Act in September 1940. On 8 September 1939, President Roosevelt declared a limited national emergency, raising the strength of the Regular Army to 227,000. State of Emergency: 227,000 to 1.4 Million Men An Organized Reserve, which existed for the purpose of supporting mobilization, contained a pool of over 100,000 trained officers, mainly graduates of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps. The Guard organization had only come into being in 1933. The Regular Army was supplemented by the National Guard, which had just 200,000 men. On 1 July 1939, however, the strength of the active Army was approximately 174,000-three quarters of whom were scattered throughout the continental United States the rest stationed overseas. involvement in WWII grew to be about 16,000,000 military personnel by the war’s end: approximately 11,200,000 in the Army, 4,200,000 in the Navy, and 660,000 in the Marine Corps.
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