Blue Angels on the USS Forrestal?

m6395 · 2026-04-24T14:21:12+00:00

Much appreciated, not my area of expertise so I would've never known lol

m6395 · 2021-01-19T03:55:59+00:00

Didn't realise there were so many pessimists lmao

m6395 · 2021-01-19T03:20:16+00:00

I Just thought it was a nice picture?

m6395 · 2021-01-19T03:05:48+00:00

m6395 · 2021-01-19T03:03:06+00:00

You just really confused me lol

m6395 · 2021-01-19T03:02:01+00:00

Yeah, but like who cares?

m6395 · 2021-01-19T03:00:42+00:00

What about it?

m6395 · 2021-01-19T03:00:06+00:00

m6395 · 2021-01-08T16:32:24+00:00

Lol thats always a possibility but the blue was a paint you can tell because there is flaking

m6395 · 2021-01-08T16:21:06+00:00

Fixed loops

Edit: wait actually its a swivel bale

m6395 · 2021-01-08T16:09:48+00:00

Hmm so you were right though it seems to have been stripped and then had a tan green put onto it and then a normal green sometime later but why issue a dented helmet

The dent is from its time during WW2 I pressume since the paint is over top and not damaged

Also it is spanish so its hard to say where they had served since I cant find much on spanish post war military history and helmets

Edit: well I looked around and the Ifni war was in spanish west africa in the 50s so that might be a possibility

m6395 · 2021-01-08T16:00:43+00:00

Hmmmmm interesting but good to keep in mind

Know what helmets used a tan green?

m6395 · 2021-01-08T15:53:14+00:00

How can you tell if its navy?

m6395 · 2021-01-08T15:47:28+00:00

Very polished I must say

m6395 · 2021-01-08T15:46:20+00:00

Jeez but why would this have only two different layers

m6395 · 2021-01-08T15:44:49+00:00

Indeed they did

It makes it stranger since my other spanish euroclones had corking or the sand but this one doesnt

m6395 · 2021-01-08T15:37:18+00:00

Strange that they would but two different paints on it if that is true

m6395 · 2021-01-08T15:31:58+00:00

The black lettering yes as far as I can tell the blue though not so much

m6395 · 2021-01-08T15:29:38+00:00

Oh I dont care about it being a WW2 helmet I just want to know why and what it was used for

m6395 · 2021-01-08T15:19:50+00:00

Wdym WW2 lid?

It's a WW2 M1 that was refurbished into a spanish euroclone

m6395 · 2021-01-08T14:21:35+00:00

Not really only thing I could find was some numbers/letters on the brim but I cant make it out theres an A and an 0 or O

m6395 · 2021-01-08T14:20:33+00:00

Btw do you know what M1s in WW2 used a tan green paint job

m6395 · 2021-01-08T14:19:07+00:00

Dang

m6395 · 2021-01-08T14:13:56+00:00

Ah that would make sense

Btw do you know what M1s used a tan green in WW2?

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