Who bought this flying helmet?

Yank44 · 21 July 2008, 08:57 AM

I remember seeing this go for sale years ago, and was wondering if anybody on here bought, or knows who bought this flying helmet? I will pay dearly for it. Thank you in advance.
Yank

pmirl · 25 July 2008, 09:30 PM

I see the name JOYCE. Any relation to the Doolittle Raider??

Paul

Yank44 · 23 August 2008, 02:20 PM

Not that I know of.

JRB · 1 September 2008, 07:09 PM

I saw the same picture on the US Navy Museum web site a few years ago. I have the exact one and didn't know what I had until I found it on the site. My sister was cleaning out her late father-in-law's estate and they found this. She asked me if I wanted it because she said they were going to throw it out. It was really in bad shape, covered with mold. I cleaned it off with vaseline and could read the lettering of Ambercrombie on back and a date of 1918. It also looked like a dog chewed on one of the chin straps. I had someone sew it up a broken chin strap. I picked up some goggles to go with it and it's displayed in our office in the basement. It's also listed in the Dougboy to GI, by Ken Lewis, as a motorcyclist helmet on page 34.

Yank44 · 2 September 2008, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by JRB

I saw the same picture on the US Navy Museum web site a few years ago. I have the exact one and didn't know what I had until I found it on the site. My sister was cleaning out her late father-in-law's estate and they found this. She asked me if I wanted it because she said they were going to throw it out. It was really in bad shape, covered with mold. I cleaned it off with vaseline and could read the lettering of Ambercrombie on back and a date of 1918. It also looked like a dog chewed on one of the chin straps. I had someone sew it up a broken chin strap. I picked up some goggles to go with it and it's displayed in our office in the basement. It's also listed in the Dougboy to GI, by Ken Lewis, as a motorcyclist helmet on page 34.

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