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USAAF A-11 intermediate flying helmet, wired

SOLD

Code: H25214



By Fox Chase Knitting Mills Inc. (I. Miller Parachute Division).  Size medium.  The leather is in very good condition, clean and supple with good straps and an AAF decal.  Excellent Bennett type buckle and chinstrap.  Minor cracks in the rubber earpieces (see photogrphs).  The lining is fairly clean, is marked with an AAF ink stamp and has the manufactuer's taffeta weave label.  Wired with a standard 'Y' loom, matched ANB-H-1 receivers by Western Electric and red PL-354 jackplug.  Fitted with a 'flat' hook/clip so it is ready to fit an oxygen mask.  This is the later war variant with a buckled rear adjustment strap and leather reinforced oxygen mask press studs.  An very good '+' lightly used example.  Stock code H25214.