Original U.S. WWII Personalized Hawley Paper M1 Helmet Liner with Complete Suspension and Sweatband German SS Pickelhaube style leather body with

Pickelhaube style leather body with sheet steel front and rear peaks with brass trim and fittings

Many surplus WWII Helmet liners (and helmets) were put back into service with the outbreak of the Korean war

The short rifle retains its serial numbers of G 6043 on the barrel

The Nepalese had originally been armed with match locks when the Gurkha armies invaded India in 1813

Original U.S. WWII Personalized Hawley Paper M1 Helmet Liner with Complete Suspension and Sweatband German SS Pickelhaube style leather body withOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an excellent example of a rare Hawley pressed paper M1 Helmet liner. They were only issued in very small numbers during the early days of World War Two. Their structural deficiencies were quickly noted, and the replacement "low pressure" and later "high pressure" liners were put into planning and production shortly after. The Hawley liners were however all that was available during the earliest days of M1