Original U.S. WWII USAAF Bomber Crew M3 Steel FLAK Helmet Original Display Machine Guns - 709th Maintenance Battalion

- 709th Maintenance Battalion

The British War Office report "WO 291/472 Performance and handling of HE grenades" gives an average figure for a standing throw of a Mills bomb as 27 m (30 yd)

a raid aimed specifically at aircraft production

making it hard to see the markings

Original U.S. WWII USAAF Bomber Crew M3 Steel FLAK Helmet Original Display Machine Guns - 709th Maintenance BattalionOriginal Item: Only One Available. U. S. Army Air Forces WWII issue M3 Flak Helmet! World War Two American bomber crews in the skies over Europe needed something more than their leather flying helmets to provide them with shrapnel injuries, however it took a surprisingly long time for a new helmet to be developed and deployed to meet that need. Not until December of 1943 did the M3 reach the ETO, it was the first of three versions of the American flak