"Italian Headgear 1941?" Topic

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DukeWacoan	01 May 2019 8:51 a.m. PST
Tropical hats or helmets around the Crusader time period? Or a mix still? Command vs rank & file?
deephorse	01 May 2019 12:40 p.m. PST
My reading would suggest tropical helmets and the ‘bustina' field cap were the more common headgear at that time. Steel helmets were rare in the early stages of the campaign. Marines, assault engineers and paratroops are photographed wearing them, and they become more common for everyone from around mid-1942, though the tropical helmet is still widely seen.
Frederick	01 May 2019 5:23 p.m. PST
Agreed – steel helmets not so common at that phase of the Desert War
DukeWacoan	01 May 2019 9:14 p.m. PST
Thx

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