helmet cover

i believe this to be greek army lizard pattern cammo cover ive been told 1970/80s i was just wandering what type of helmet would this of fitted im kind of guessing an m1 clone but not sure any information would be great thanks jay

Hi James.

A Greek M1 clone, the Greeks produced their own M1 and equipped their Army in the late 60's. The liners were plain plastic green very much like say a Dutch liner, webbing was OD and followed the US style.

Quite a scarce item Mate, congrats on getting hold of this beautiful example

many thanks for the info gary and for confirming what i was thinking ,i thought it was for fitting onto an m1 style judging by the profile in this pic i found ,it looks like they use the us m17 gasmask too

Your welcome as ever mate.

BTW I like the ref picture James, you can clearly see the M1 style chinstraps, and the way the cover is sandwiched between the shell and liner, I'm surprised they don't use a helmet band to tidy up the profile a bit, but that's me being a lid- Geek I guess

One of those covers ended yesterday on Ebay UK-went cheap as well if i can remember.

i fitted the cover on a us m1 just to see how it looked

Looks very cool Mate, love it , it displays well on an M1