Last evening I was talking with an 88 year old RAF veteran friend, one of the places he served was at RAF Manston with the 54 MU. His job there was salvage and recovery and spent much time at the end of the emergency runway, an area called "the loop". Many years ago he gave me a few things he no longer wanted and one of which was this Helmet Net. He told me that he picked it up off the Manston Runway once all the tugs and gliders had left for Arnhem, he could not recall if the 17th,18th or 19th September, probably after the 19th I think. Though a fairly common item and with little value the history of it is not. Makes you wonder what became of the Paratrooper who dropped it and not long after was in Arnhem. Regards, Clive.
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Found on Runway RAF Manston Sept 1944
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Close-up of the weave for SMP. Jean-Loup I have met many veterans who have collected and kept the strangest of things. Possibly just a British trait, I do not know. My feeling is that they picked-up items that had importance to them at the time. In this instance the veteran had other things such as the fin from an Incendiary Bomb, a German broken Aircraft Clock, a piece of a German Landmine and many other seemingly "trivial" items. Regards, Clive.Attached Files
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Originally posted by grip3846 View PostVery nice item,don't you just love things like this,honest as the day is long,not monitarily valuable but priceless historically.
Is the draw string broken (like a shoe lace)?
regards,
Marcel
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