GD winter camo. helmet. Help needed !

[DeMil]

Today I got this helmet from an veteran.
It is painted with white kalk-paint mixed with small wood-texture.
On the side it is original painted " C or G . D ". Do anybody know what these 2 letters meen ?
And on the front of the helmet there are painted some strange monogram and on the rigth side of it you can see an " A ".
This helmet comes fron the West-cost of Norway and could it be some unit-or regimental markings ?

DeMil.

[DeMil]

side

[DeMil]

Front

[DeMil]

Markings.

[DeMil]

Top.

[DeMil]

I forgot to write that this helmet was after the war painted with thin black shiny paint. I have removed the paint and on the side it was painted with matt black paint " G.D ".
Could the letters stand for " Gross Deutschland " ???

Regards
Derek

[Robban75]

the whit doesnt feel right, a bit to shiny ...i am no expert on wintercamo
but is there black under the white?
if so the white is no good..

[TK]

GD is the abr. of "Gross Deutschland" but your M42 helmet seems to be painted postwar regarding the pics. Also there is added a postwar looking chinstrap to the helmet.

[ww2germanhelmet]

I'm in agreement with TK on this one. I believe that the white is post War paint.

[DeMil]

Hi.

The black is over the white paint. You can see some black spots were I have not taken it away yet.
The white paint is kalk and it is wood-texture in the paint, and as I know the history on this helmet, it is not painted after the war.
Way it is a bit blank could be that it was overpaited but the blitz maked it worse than it is.
And the leatherstrap we often find on helmets from Norway. I have seen 5-6 german helmets with this type of leatherstrap.
I have another helmet with the same stap. And this is a untuched Kriegsmarine helmet with gray-ship overpaint.

Best
Derek

[DeMil]

Here is a picture from inside the wintercamo. helmet !
As you see the same leatherstrap as on the Kriegsmairne helmet.
Can anybody say me way these straps were used

[Ostfries]

chinstrap,

WWII period Tsjechoslowakian chinstraps.

[DeMil]

WWII period Tsjechoslowakian chinstraps.

Thanks.

So some soldiers here in Norway preferd to use Tsjechoslowakian chinstraps on their helmets then. Why I dont realy know, but I have heard something that canon-personal preferd these chinstraps because the helmet sat better on, from the recryl when big canons got fired !

Derek

[Ostfries]

post-war,

Thanks.

So some soldiers here in Norway preferd to use Tsjechoslowakian chinstraps on their helmets then. Why I dont realy know, but I have heard something that canon-personal preferd these chinstraps because the helmet sat better on, from the recryl when big canons got fired !

Derek

The chinstrap is WWII period Tsjechoslowakian, personally I never encountered these on German helmets, because of the white paint being post-war they probably added the chinstrap post-war as well.

[lolle]

Earlier i got in a dispute about helmets coming from Bergen/Norway.
The helmet in this tread seems to be from Bergen too. Im not intending to start another dispute on helmets, just want to show whats coming from Bergen. This is just not god enough, is it ?
In the advert it says something like this.

"Original german white winter camo", "mixed with sawdust to make the surface...", ..painted with black G D, this is original..", "probably a unit marking", "chinstrap replaaced by the german himself", "80 % intact wintercamo", "is very rare.."
Price, aprox 500 $

lolle