Please, meet Petty Officer I class Kulik Stepan Porfir’evich, gunlayer of the AA speedboat CK-418, 11 Patrol Boat Squadron of Waterway Area Defence.
Born in 1919, he lived at least until 1985 when he was awarded OGPW2. Awards:
Medal "For Battle Merits" # 2552391 , 25.04.1944
Order of "Red Star" # 923968 , 05.12.1944
10 commendations
Badge "Excellent gunner"
OGPW2 in 1985
Armoured small submarine chaser «БМО», project 194. Main armament is 37mm automatic cannon on the bow, one 45mm cannon and a pair of 12,7mm machine-guns, 10pcs of 120kg and 20kg depth charges.
CK-418 was 2nd of 66 total built boats of the project 194. It was set afloat 5.11.1942 and commenced service on 21.06.1943.
Now this Sonderfuhrer visor is not a rare cap, however, the chin cords are not often seen which makes this visor somewhat rare. These chin cords were approved in mid-1944 and are constructed of blue-gray and silver sections. A very solid cap manufactured by Erel with proper ventilation hardware. Interior lining is loose in the front (attributed to many "looks under the hood" IMO).
Please enjoy photos and if you wish to see other shots please let me know.
Gday to all,
I have a French M26 Adrian helmet. It is French due to the split rivets. The shell is over all in pretty good shape.Now comes the question most people ask, if the insignia is original. I have no way to determine this, but it seems that the insignia has been for a long time with the helmet. The chin strap seems to be original with the helmet. The problem I’m having is the liner. It’s synthetic not leather. I read some were that they came out after 1940 but have no source to confirm that. For sure is that it was with the helmet for a very long time. There is a stamping one one side of the liner which is not readable anymore and on the reverse side it carrys the number 60 which I assume is the size of the liner. I got it for a good price. The comb seams to be out of aluminum as well as the rivets that holds the (spring?) that holds the liner clips into place. Comments are very appreciated.
Well here is my semi-auto MG08 Spandau Maxim on the sled mount. I need to refinish the new side plate but it is now functional again.
The water jacket still wears its 100 year old original camouflage paint as does the sled with it’s hand painted III Machine Gun Corp markings. I have the sled tools, AA mount, spare barrel, armor shields, belts, steam chest, and a Zf12 optic. I still need the spare locks and broken shell extractors for the sled boxes and a steam hose though. Hope you enjoy the pictures.
CaptMax Spa
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
