Original U.S. Vietnam War Pilot APH-5 Flying Helmet Category_MG 42 Bolt & Barrel Assembly and from there on is

and from there on is very finely platted leather over a flexible core

Although believed to be from the Pre-1952 era we are told that these swords were all reconditioned in the 1980s

one with his crew

It still had the same fixed side-mounted ejector

in the light the original markings can still be seen:

Original U.S. Vietnam War Pilot APH-5 Flying Helmet Category_MG 42 Bolt & Barrel Assembly and from there on isOriginal Item: Only One Available. The APH 5 helmet was the result of more than two years studies conducted 1954 56 for a successor to the H 3 and H 4 series of helmets. VX 3 at NAS Atlantic City, the Aero Medical Branch of Service Test Division at NATC Patuxent River, Air Crew Equipment Laboratory, Naval Air Materiel Center, Philadelphia, and AirLant and AirPac Fleet units were among those who co operated with the Airborne Equipment Division of BuAer