Original German WWII Named Metropolitan Police Shako in Black - Size 59 Napoleonic Tennessee on 24 March 1944

Tennessee on 24 March 1944

first with the 501st Battalion in Panama for training then later in the 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment

the Americans awarded themselves the nickname of the "Polar Bears" as a testament to surviving the arctic winter

and purchased the bankrupt Robbins and Lawrence Armory in Windsor

German-held Fort Driant played a role in repulsing this crossing

Original German WWII Named Metropolitan Police Shako in Black - Size 59 Napoleonic Tennessee on 24 March 1944Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice Early WWII produced police pattern Tschako Shako in black, which pre dates the more common green wool body version. It has has very fine quality police eagle with aluminum cockade (often missing), though one of the securing nuts is missing from the back of the plate, along with the threaded post. A great Polizei helmet (shako) as used by the metropolitan police, unlike some of the more common ones