You need to try and find footage (if any exists) of the production and painting of the helmets. From what I can tell there is no footage anywhere of the helmets being made and then painted, would be really neat to see how the process for both was done. The only available footage regarding WW2 M1 helmets (besides this video) has to do with the creation of high pressure liners
I see video all the time of m1s being painted in the factory. Ill try and hunt it down. Its footage of them spinning and being sprayed on an assembly line.
I recall footage of 1960s M1 shells being painted in “Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam”, but I have never seen footage of WWII shells being painted.
The larger picture. People living today will never understand how much having a job and a salary meant to these people. They lived through the great depression. Depression kids never left any food, they cleaned their plate into old age. The same movement over and over, 8-10 hours a day 5-6 days a week. No whining, no trouble making, no phone calls, no gabbing. Food was rationed, scarce. Fighting at the grocery stores for scraps of meat. If you were lucky, the factory had a cafeteria where you could get a decent meal. No tires, no cars, no refrigerators, very little gas. Overcrowded trains, busses, street cars. The boss got on the squawkbox and announced the factory had met it's production goal. Now, a new production goal, make even more in the same time. In Europe, it was worse. Bombs came through the factory roof. Finally, victory, then the economy crashed as government contracts stopped and people got laid off and the economy took time to transition to peace. Could you live through it?
It’s very cool to see them punch all the holes in the firer liners at once and set the webbing!
I guess when Hawley' liners were brand new they were stronger, love how the workers are just tossing them around.
🙂 albeit a gentle toss...
Wow, everyone looks so overjoyed to be working at this factory...
Perhaps they got news they're loved ones died in the service of our country.
The cardboard box at 2:19 informs us that this is the McCord factory.
Excellent observation! We also know this because McCord installed the web cradles and chinstrap in the Hawley liners.
Hi :-) Amazing video. I'd like to see more of them.
You need to try and find footage (if any exists) of the production and painting of the helmets. From what I can tell there is no footage anywhere of the helmets being made and then painted, would be really neat to see how the process for both was done. The only available footage regarding WW2 M1 helmets (besides this video) has to do with the creation of high pressure liners
Yeah I agree I can’t find any videos of it either
I see video all the time of m1s being painted in the factory. Ill try and hunt it down. Its footage of them spinning and being sprayed on an assembly line.
That is footage of the liners, not the helmet itself@@AdamMann3D
I recall footage of 1960s M1 shells being painted in “Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam”, but I have never seen footage of WWII shells being painted.
Very cool find. Would love to find on of m1 garand factory
This is so interesting how they made then helmets
I love how almost no one looked to be overweight back then! I saw maybe one person but it’s debatable whether she was fat or just pregnant!
The larger picture. People living today will never understand how much having a job and a salary meant to these people. They lived through the great depression. Depression kids never left any food, they cleaned their plate into old age. The same movement over and over, 8-10 hours a day 5-6 days a week. No whining, no trouble making, no phone calls, no gabbing. Food was rationed, scarce. Fighting at the grocery stores for scraps of meat. If you were lucky, the factory had a cafeteria where you could get a decent meal. No tires, no cars, no refrigerators, very little gas. Overcrowded trains, busses, street cars. The boss got on the squawkbox and announced the factory had met it's production goal. Now, a new production goal, make even more in the same time. In Europe, it was worse. Bombs came through the factory roof. Finally, victory, then the economy crashed as government contracts stopped and people got laid off and the economy took time to transition to peace. Could you live through it?
i wonder how standard that packaging for helmet bodies was?
I wish I had all of that helmets lol
You see black and white workers in the same space.