Original U.S. WWI 1917 Model 2 Experimental Helmet by Ford Motor Company Cannons including the weapon's cleaning kit

including the weapon's cleaning kit

Nelson was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor

Serial number is 109172 meaning its production was the year 1898

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Original U.S. WWI 1917 Model 2 Experimental Helmet by Ford Motor Company Cannons including the weapon's cleaning kitOriginal Item: Only One Available. When the United States entered World War I in 1917 it had no steel helmet. The American military turned to Dr. Bashford Dean, an American zoologist and armor expert who served on the board at both the New York Natural History Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to help design a helmet for the soldiers heading to France. One of the first so called "experimental" patterns was the Model 2. Designed in June of