helmet SS chicken wire photos

[simone977]

Hi guys,
i'm an italian collector.
i'm looking for some photos (if they exists) about ss soldier wearing a chicken wired helmet.
Can someone help me?

p.s. excuse me for my english...it's very poor

Bye bye

Simon

[Tommaso]

I've seen just one picture in my whole life of an SS guy with a chicken lid even you can judge if there was an SS decal or not.
The picture was taken from the Deutsche Wochensau newsreel in the Ardennes and was also published on Osprey booklet about Joachim Peiper-Ardenne 44.
It has been posted on the forum somewhere, use the search engine.

Cheers
T

[Mike Davis]

Check the book SS Helmets by Beaver and Hicks - page 149.

[Tommaso]

Hi Mike,

as far as I remember on that book there's an original SS chicken...and period pictures as well? actually I do not remember well.
Anyway I would say the SS chicken is the most faked and most rare SS lid around.

[simone977]

thank you very much for these informations guys...

can you post a photo here?



Simon