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12-30-2011 08:48 PM
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Re: What made this hole in my helmet?
maybe damaged before escavation by a digging tool or pick spike
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Re: What made this hole in my helmet?
The idea crossed my mind too - but it looked a little corroded around the hole itself, the condition of the paint seems too good for it the helmet to have actually been underground for any length of time (although I'm not sure how these things preserve) and furthermore, the amount of force you'd have to put behind the fork would be pretty impressive! I really don't know though, it's a bit of a mystery to me.
Robbie
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Re: What made this hole in my helmet?
The edges of the hole aren't new so I doubt it was made by the person digging it up. I would say it is potentially a bullet or shrapnel hole as you say.
Looking for LDO marked EK2s and items relating to U-406.....
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Re: What made this hole in my helmet?
I'm glad it's not thought to be a digging tool, that'd quite ruin some of its interest aspect to me; and if it's a bullet it's a really weirdly shaped one and at a strange angle! I was trying to work out the circumstance in which a piece of shrapnel or bullet could hit a soldier almost from above with enough force to tear through his helmet, but it's a mystery. Thanks for the help everyone!
Robbie
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Re: What made this hole in my helmet?
A Tumbling heavy machine gun bullet? Just a guess. William
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
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Re: What made this hole in my helmet?
Ooh, really? That sounds interesting. What makes you think it's that?
Robbie
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Re: What made this hole in my helmet?
It's slightly pointed on the one side,so it appears the bullet slammed into it sideways. William
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
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Re: What made this hole in my helmet?
maybe the soldat was lying on the ground (dead/wounded) and a bullet struck it (if that makes sense)
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Re: What made this hole in my helmet?
It could be virtually any number of scenarios, I suppose. He could have been riding on or walking next to a Panzer and had a ricochet bounce off it into his helmet-maybe he was in a town and had it bing off a building or water pipe...who can say? William
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
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