![]() ![]() ![]() Overly-large spades are usually a giveaway, as well as the overly-large officer or nco bars usually found on the rear. When any 506th helmet is offered for sale, a red flag should go-up in your brain-these are the most-popular (because of BoB) and also the most widely-faked helmets of all. Most of the few surviving examples are still in Europe, either in some farmer's loft or in private collections. Units of the 101st never wore stenciled helmets in the states. Why? Because the originals were destroyed en-masse in 1945 and surviving examples are so rare, that they barely exist. If you ever see 506th helmets for sale-especially if they are painted with 2nd Bn stencils, you had best ASSUME they are fake. You think they must be real, if people are paying that much for them. ![]() You see examples on E Bay and most end-up selling for about $3,000- or more. "So, you watched Band of Brothers and you want to buy a paratrooper helmet with those neat spades painted on the sides? Most of the ones in the film are real big, with flourishy spades and stems, like you see on playing cards. He is THE 101st guy so it's hard not to listen. The following has always stuck with me since reading it long ago on Mark Bando's "Trigger Time" website for the 101st. ![]()
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