Share
Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Verified answer
So it was available to pull down over their faces when marching through the jungle where there were worse critters than the enemy to worry about. Bug screen and/or stingy nettle screen.
Camouflage
The United States Army often utilized nets to reduce the helmets shine when wet and to allow burlap scrim or vegetation to be added for camouflage purposes. Most nets were acquired from British or Canadian Army stocks or cut from larger camouflage nets, The Army did not adopt an official issue net until the M-1944 mesh net that included a neoprene foliage band, which would been retained on latter Mitchell and woodland camouflage covers.
I quite have seen movies like Saving private Ryan and the infantrymen have nets on their helmets. the countless squares interior the netting are woven very small and a few nets have great squares woven into them. what's the factor of the netting. some infantrymen did no longer have netting on their helmets.
To reduce/spread out the impact of blunt trauma to the head.
If you are interested in WW2 here are some good articles on it.
http://www.nationscrier.com/index.php?option=com_c...
http://www.nationscrier.com/index.php?option=com_c...