Word: helmeted
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...clutching now at his dirty uniform, looking up under his battered helmet...
...ricocheted along the water. The plane hit the water. Chunks of plane sailed past our boat. A stream of flame shot past a hospital ship near by. Then the peril set in. Our own antiaircraft fragments started splashing around. I wished fervently that I had worn my helmet...
...resemblance between Pistol-Packing Patton of the lacquered helmet and Two-Gun Mosby (see cut), who rode to battle in a scarlet-lined cape, with a brilliant plume in his campaign hat, is no mere coincidence. Colonel Mosby lived until 1916. He was a friend of Patton's father, whose own father had died with his Confederate boots on in the Battle of Cedar Creek. Colonel Mosby was the boyhood idol of George Patton, who made up his mind at age seven that he was going to be a U.S. Army officer...
...campaign to get G.I.s to wear their helmets straight, Lee began stopping men in the street and asking: "Is my helmet on straight?" Told respectfully that it was, the General would crack back: "Well, yours isn't." This had the desired effect until Lee ran into one officer who answered: "No sir, your helmet isn't quite straight. Move it a little over this way-no, that way-no, that's wrong too." Word of the tactic got around; the General had to abandon his campaign...
...face down in the slit trench with the brim of my helmet in the soft ground, as close to the earth as I could get, and held my breath. . . . When the bombs went off and I realized that I hadn't been hit, I found I couldn't draw a full breath. My chest felt contracted and tight. I was cold...