wwII chinese M35 helmet

[iecwillow]

wwII chinese M35 helmet
World War II, the Chinese army imported German M35 helmet, Songhu Battle in 1937, Japanese soldiers seized back to Japan, found a thrift store in Tokyo, back to China again.
2970\ET66\1936
Japanese soldiers sign：呉淞砲台　ニテ








Chinese soldiers in World War II

The Japanese army invaded Nanjing, capture M35 helmet

[Jean-Loup]

How do you know the location where it had originaly been picked up?
Nice helmet! I am sure there would be greaat potential for some battlefield digging in China, perhaps in the future...

[blinky]

wow!
One of the rarest German made M35s you could find!!

[Papa Nambu]

How do you know the location where it had originaly been picked up?

The writing scratched inside says where it is from.

[Bernhard]

A very interresting helmet !
thanks for showing.

Regards

Bernhard

[GHP]

呉淞砲台ニテ
Woosong Fort at

呉淞 Woosong/ Wusung - is a port town located fourteen miles downriver from Shanghai

砲台 Houdai - gun emplacement/battery; fort

ニテ [ni te] -- at.

In Chinese, the Battle of Shanghai is known as the Battle of Songhu (Chinese: 淞滬會戰; pinyin: Sōnghù Huìzhàn). Song (淞) comes from Wusong (吳凇), an alternate name of Suzhou Creek, which runs through Shanghai. Hu (滬) is the abbreviation for the city itself. In Chinese literature, the battle is also referred to as 813, denoting August 13, the date when battle began.
In some Japanese sources, the battle is known as the "Second Shanghai Incident" (第二次上海事変 Dai-niji Shanhai jihen), alluding to the First Shanghai Incident of 1932. However, the 1937 Battle of Shanghai was a full-scale battle signifying the beginning of an all-out war between the two countries.


Battle of Shanghai

One of these helmets might be THIS one!!


--Guy

[iecwillow]

呉淞砲台ニテ
Woosong Fort at

呉淞 Woosong/ Wusung - is a port town located fourteen miles downriver from Shanghai

砲台 Houdai - gun emplacement/battery; fort

ニテ [ni te] -- at.

One of these helmets might be THIS one!!


--Guy

Thank you for your information, you know a lot about the history,
salute!

Friends from china.

[mcmike]

Insignia scratched off.

It is very interesting that the insignia was scratched off, evidently during the war. As a war souvenir you would not think that the Japanese soldier removed it. Rather, perhaps it was reused during that era by Communist Chinese forces, a warlord's troops, or another of the groups fighting in China during that period before the Japanese soldier captured it.

Thank you for posting this helmet; as I said, very interesting.

[blinky]

It is very interesting that the insignia was scratched off, evidently during the war. As a war souvenir you would not think that the Japanese soldier removed it. Rather, perhaps it was reused during that era by Communist Chinese forces, a warlord's troops, or another of the groups fighting in China during that period before the Japanese soldier captured it.

Thank you for posting this helmet; as I said, very interesting.

I was wondering about that as well, but was thinking perhaps it was used by the vet who picked it up or another family member as a civil defense helmet later in the war. This really is a "if only this helmet could talk" type of helmet

[mcmike]

I was wondering about that as well, but was thinking perhaps it was used by the vet who picked it up or another family member as a civil defense helmet later in the war. This really is a "if only this helmet could talk" type of helmet

Now that is very possible. Hadn't even crossed my mind [sic]. Captured in '37 it had plenty of time to sit around the house, and later become very valuable when the bombs were falling and invasion seemed very possible.

[Jean-Loup]

"The writing scratched inside says where it is from. "

It is so neatly carved that I though it was some kind of stamp added by the Chinese in their helmets after receiving them from Germany.

[paulj]

Very rare helmet.... decades ago before any one realized what they were, a Chinese helmet with a complete emblem turned up but someone put an SS decal on it... and claimed the Chinese insignia to indicate a volunteer helmet.