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09-30-2009 08:23 PM
# ADS
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Re: Sarajevo. Help! Trying to ID collar tabs!!!
Here is a link to a rare helmet from the unit which I own:
https://www.warrelics.eu/forum/steel...0-helmet-1601/
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Sarajevo. Help! Trying to ID collar tabs!!!
Ade , that is a cracking looking helmet , i`m not surprised it`s your favourite ,
cheers Al
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Re: Sarajevo. Help! Trying to ID collar tabs!!!
Striker, thanks for the offer to translate.
If we come across any more documents etc, i'll let ya know.
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Re: Sarajevo. Help! Trying to ID collar tabs!!!
Ade, you should be on mastermind
I've just read a book by Mark Mazower, Hitlers Empire, which sheds somelight on these and other goings on. well worth a read if you have the time, your sixty seconds start now.
Just looked at your helmet link, very nice. When you say you brought it locally is that from a veteran source? or had it already been around?
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Re: Sarajevo. Help! Trying to ID collar tabs!!!
The helmet was bought locally by a part time dealer direct from the Vet but he failed to take any details. I got it at a fraction of it's true worth about 10 years ago now.
Cheers, Ade.
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Re: Sarajevo. Help! Trying to ID collar tabs!!!
Being Croatian myself, its pretty neat to see something like this after so many years. Not a lot of people out there are aware of the small Croat based units hence the reason there isn't many of these helmets in existence.
I was talking to my father a few days ago and he grew up in Slavonija, a small province in North-Eastern Croatia where a lot of Ustashe/Partisan conflicts went on. Anyways, he clearly remembers his grandmother using the left-behind helmets from retreating german-croatian forces to feed her chickens out of
He said that she had a few of them and that the entire village where his family is still today probably has a lot of treasures that can still be retrieved. Makes you wonder if there are any more helmets with Cro markings still on them......
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