Description
Here is your chance to pick up a rare piece of headgear. A textbook Kriegsmarine M35 helmet. The exterior displays typical signs of wear and use but still retains most of the original apple green paint. Kriegsmarine decal is in great condition overall being about 90% complete. Remains of the tri color present from the period regulation to remove the tri color shields. Shell is marked ET64 with a 3649 lot number. Liner is in nice used condition with zero major issues. Liner is size marked as a size 56 and there is a name written by the leather seam. Untouched split pins. Overall a nice solid example of an uncommon helmet. Click HERE to view more images of this item! In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, the Kriegsmarine grew rapidly during German naval rearmament in the 1930s. The 1919 treaty had limited the size of the German navy previously, and prohibited the building of submarines.The Kriegsmarine ‘s most significant ships were the U-boats, most of which were constructed after Plan Z was abandoned at the beginning of World War II. Wolfpacks were rapidly assembled groups of submarines which attacked British convoys during the first half of the Battle of the Atlantic but this tactic was largely abandoned by May 1943 when U-boat losses mounted. Along with the U-boats, surface commerce raiders (including auxiliary cruisers) were used to disrupt Allied shipping in the early years of the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer and the battleship Bismarck . However, the adoption of convoy escorts, especially in the Atlantic, greatly reduced the effectiveness of surface commerce raiders against convoys. Free shipping ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD & I don’t charge PayPal fees like some of the other guys!
