Apparently, a paper insignia for an armoured regiment used to be glued here. This is not 100% certain, and info is wanted.
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Ciarocchi's serial number. Note the helmet has been period repainted. Ciarrocchi was still alive when I last contacted him a few months ago.Comment
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The person who found Ciarrocchis helmet the day after he forgot it in the forest.Comment
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US camo helmet found in Peira Cava, southern France. It has the unit insignia of the 65th Infantry Division engraved in the paint. The 65th was composed of Porto Rican volunteers.Comment
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Close up of the engraving. There is no name unfortunatly.Comment
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The original finder of the helmet.Comment
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RCAF ring worn by John Bawden, navigator of a british two seater reconaissance plane shot down over Normandy. He gave the ring to a local teenage girl he had a bit of an affaire with before the underground got him back to England.Comment
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The "teenage girl" today.Comment
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French colonial troops helmet found around Grenoble. I suspect it was owned by a person who landed in southern France, and participated in the rush up to northen France.Comment
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A british made flack jacket used by a Bosnian soldier in Sarajevo, who had himslef taken from the body of a killed serb. The serb was apparently shot in the armpit. The jacked saved its new owner from wounds twice.Comment
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The owner told me he was hit by an AK 47 round here. I dont know the distance or the angle. Normaly, an AK bullet should have pierced the jacket (depending on the distance and angle parameters of course).Comment
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I forgot to post these items of my grandfather, who was with the French troops sent to Lebanon in 1939.
Note the cool checkerboard. It could almsot be DAK!Comment
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I also forgot to post this picture illustrating the rifle grenade like the one found in the ex mass grave of german soldiers.Comment
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And that must be about it. I hope you enjoyed the visite. If you want to see more of ceratin items, I may have better pics lying around.Comment
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Thanks for the coments already posted
"Fantastic helmet! Good stuff but when I saw that modified helmet...whew! Worthy of publication."
Indeed, it is suposed to be published in a book on US helmet that one of our forum members, CCmax, is preparing.
Here is something that isnt militaria, but interesting anyways.
A couple of summers ago, I was working in a local morgue, and one day, 2 bodies were brought in, a husband and wife. The husband had shot his wife in the neck with a 22, and then shot himself under the chin.
They were autopsied, ect, and a few days latter, when a funeral home came to put the bodies in a coffin, one of my work colleagues found this 22 bullet beside the body of the husband. He was going to throw it out, but asked me if I wanted it, knowing I collected militaria. So I kept it, and made a grouping, with a newspaper article about the event, and the markers that were placed on the fridges the two bodies were kept in.
Yes, I know, I am just a bit on the morbid side
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