by bryanbg Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:08 am
I have to tell you James, that you have one hell of an impressive collection! A great collection of various Coalition items as well.
The tanker's cover does have some writing inside on the inner headset:
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I have another tanker's cover which is of heavier cloth material (not the hot weather version). I'll likely find a spot to mount this one amongst the others. There is some very faded inscription inside this as well:
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These helmets are all 'bring backs' taken off the battle fields (mostly western and northern Kuwait).
The helmet with the burlap cover I also brought home from the First Gulf War. I took it off of a dead Iraqi, and noted that it had folded up and stored in the inner webbing a page out of a women's fashion magazine. What it was doing in the helmet I'll leave it draw our own conclusion (however it does indeed grow lonely out in the desert).
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There is a helmet I literally pulled from a compost pile from a farm we were searching for weapons on west of Baghdad. Cleaned off and brought it home. It looks like an old Easter Bloc (Soviet, maybe) style steel helmet. Its the one furthest to the right:
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