Template:Did you know nominations/International Hat Company

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:35, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

International Hat Company

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World War II sun helmet

... that International Hat Company was one of only two manufacturers to produce the U.S. sun helmet from World War II, which was one of the longest used military helmets in service by the U.S. military?

- Source Links from International Hat Company article:

Suciu, Peter. "USMC Pressed Fiber Helmet – Training Helmet and More". Military Sun Helmets. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
Suciu, Peter. "The American Pressed Fiber Helmets Blueprints". Military Sun Helmets. Military Helmet Experts. Retrieved March 21, 2016.
Suciu, Peter; Bates, Stuart (2010). Military Sun Helmets of the World (2nd ed.). Uckfield, UK: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 9781894581523.
Lemons, Charles R. (2011). Uniforms of the US Army Ground Forces (1939–1945), Addendum. Raleigh, NC: Lulu Press. p. 212. ISBN 1105268926. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
Tulkoff, Alec (2003). Grunt Gear: USMC Combat Infantry Equipment of World War II. San Jose, CA: R. James Bender Publishing. p. 286. ISBN 0912138920.

Improved to Good Article status by Belshay (talk). Self-nominated at 23:17, 8 December 2016 (UTC).

Age, length & GA status verified. No obvious problems with article. (I've done some minor copyediting to remove unnecessary hatnotes.) QPQ exempt. Half of the hook is cited to a book, but is also available in the web article. Militarysunhelmets.com appears to be a self-published blog, so it's borderline as a reliable source, but given the author's apparent expertise in the subject I'll accept. Hook reads awkwardly though. I'd suggest modifying it to read "... that during World War II, International Hat Company was one of the two main manufacturers of the U.S. sun helmet (pictured), one of the longest-used helmets of the U.S. military?" The image caption should also be modified to avoid confusion on whether the pictured helmet is an actual WWII specimen (I'm assuming it isn't). Paul_012 (talk) 21:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)