Here I have one of the more harder to come by M1C liners as ruddersrangers44 (Jake) can testify to. The liner is still made of the duck cotton and resin which had been done this way since WW2. At the same time they were producing the nylon laminated liners which were to take over the duck cotton resin liners. A transitional batch of these M1C liners with the new suspension were contracted out to Westinghouse, Pat-Ric and Marmac between 1964 to 1965. This particular liner has no manufacturers logo but does have the government US 19 marked in the crown. The press then must have been a government leased press to one of the liner manufacturers. Looking at the contract info on the liners suspension it has the date 14 SEP 1964 and the only company with that contract date to manufacture this liner is Westinghouse producing 51,000 units. There is also a worn white painted numeral 7 on the liner which was known to be done by Westinghouse only. The liner appears to have retained its original factory paint with no over paint. A very well used liner in good condition.
The steel helmet body is a McCord with fitted paratrooper straps and is a rear seamed swivel bale with the heat stamp prefix of M197A (1950s). Unusually there is no - between the M and 197A and even more unusual the stamp has been pressed halfway between the bale and the front brow (see pic). I have only ever seen the stamp directly under the brow on these postwar Mccords from the ones I own and have observed online.
The Mitchell is a late 1965 manufactured cover and is in very worn condition as is the camouflage band.
Jake if I’ve missed anything out Let me know bud :p
Thanks for looking guys cool militaria

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