Editing M1 helmet (section)

== Accessories ==
[[file:Lopez scaling seawall.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Camouflage-patterned [[helmet cover]]s worn by [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marines]] during the [[Battle of Incheon]] in 1950, during the [[Korean War]]]]
[[file:Chemical weapon1.jpg|thumb|An [[Islamic Republic of Iran Army]] soldier wearing an M1 helmet and a gas mask in a trench during the [[Iran-Iraq War]]]]

In late 1942, the [[United States Marine Corps]] used a cloth [[helmet cover]] with a camouflage pattern for its helmets. The cover was made from cotton herringbone [[twill]] fabric. It had a "[[forest green]]" pattern on one side and a "brown coral island" pattern on the other.

The U.S. Army often used 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 Army|British]] or [[Canadian Forces Land Force Command|Canadian Army]] stocks or cut from larger camouflage nets. The Army did not adopt an official issue net until the "Net, Helmet, with Band" that included an elastic neoprene band to keep it in place.

After World War II, no new covers were issued. At the start of the Korean War in 1950, many soldiers had to improvise covers from burlap sandbags or parachute fabric. A consignment of 100,000 olive drab covers was dispatched to the theater, but the ship carrying them, SS ''Jacob Luckenbach'',<ref>{{cite web |title=The Shipwreck Jacob Luckenbach |url=https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/maritime/expeditions/luckenbach.html |publisher=National Marine Sanctuaries, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration }}</ref> sank in a collision en route and they were all lost. In 1963, the Army and Marine Corps adopted a reversible fabric cover called the "Mitchel Pattern", with a leafy green pattern on one side and orange and brown cloud pattern on the other.<ref>Brayley 2008, p. 124</ref> This type was nearly omnipresent during the [[Vietnam War]], where, for the first time, the Army wore the cloth camouflage as general issue; in Vietnam, the green portion of the reversible fabric camouflage was normally worn outermost. Helmet covers in the (European) Woodland camouflage were designed for fighting in the European Theater of Operations ([[NATO]]), and became the post-Vietnam jungle pattern camouflage cover used by the U.S. military from the late 1970s onward. The (European) Woodland pattern was only printed on one side and was not reversible, though some rare desert camouflage examples exist. These covers were all constructed from two semi-circular pieces of cloth stitched together to form a dome-like shape conforming to the helmet's shape. They were secured to the helmet by folding their open ends into the steel pot, and then placing the liner inside, trapping the cloth between the pot and the liner. An [[olive green]] elastic band, intended to hold additional camouflage materials, was often worn around the helmet to further hold the cover in place.

Other armies used these or similar covers printed with different camouflage patterns, or employed entirely different methods. In the [[Royal Netherlands Army|Dutch Army]], for example, it was common practice to use a square piece of [[burlap]] as a helmet cover on M1 helmets, usually secured by a net and a wide rubber band.

During the [[Battle of the Bulge]] and the Korean War, soldiers made white helmet covers as camouflage in snowy areas. They were not issued to soldiers, so many soldiers simply made them using white cloth from a shirt or tablecloth.{{Citation needed|date=December 2010}}