US WW2 314th Infantry Regiment (79th I.D.) Named M1 Combat Helmet

In a very good condition a US WW2 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division M1 Combat Helmet.
The swivel bale helmet comes in a complete condition. It's made by Schleuter and has productionnumber 43A.
It comes with the original attached chinstraps and has on the inside the name and unit of the former owner marked 'Butner, 1st Bn, 314th Inf.'
Inside the shell is a very nice Westinghouse liner present with original webbing and chinstrap.
A very stunning helmet set of one of the combat units that liberated France!

The 314th Infantry Regiment was reactivated in World War II as part of the 79th Infantry Division. The 314th was again called upon to liberate Europe. Just a month after D-Day during the Normandy campaign, the 314th Infantry Regiment and its parent 79th Infantry Division helped capture the French port of Cherbourg. Cherbourg was pivotal to the success of the D-Day invasion. Without the use of a large port, the allies would be unable to sustain the initial invasion force which would have meant failure in liberating Western Europe. One book on Normandy by respected English historian Max Hastings commented that in just the combat operations culminating with the capture of Cherbourg, the 79th Infantry Division’s combat losses of over 2,000 killed, wounded and captured were not due to any deficit in leadership but simply to the high cost paid for bitter resistance put up by the well entrenched Nazi Army.

As part of General George S. Patton’s 3rd Army, the 314th Infantry Regiment was the first across the Seine River and helped liberate France. Later in the winter of 1944 when the Germans launched their massive counter offensive now known as the Battle of the Bulge, the now veteran 314th had to retake its own positions after other “green” US army units which had rotated in succumbed to the massive German onslaught.

At the end of World War II the United States had one of the largest armies in history. However, at wars end millions of soldiers of America’s greatest generation put down their arms and returned to civilian life. And once again, the 314th Infantry Regiment was deactivated in 1945.

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