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Morning came and the Commando-men splashed ashore, each carrying his 60-lb. pack and wearing a green beret (they scorn the steel helmet as a needlessly heavy encumbrance). They skirted beach mines, passed pillboxes, dodged gunfire, and started the long, tough fight inland...
...bulky German in a black steel helmet loomed above our trench, pointed his submachine gun at us and yelled "Hända hoch, heraus-Hands up, get out." Pouring out blasphemies, an officer with bulging eyes and thick lips searched us for guns, took away our papers and hit Talbot for not raising his injured right arm high enough. With a curse he threw my ten-dollar bills to the ground; I picked them up and put them back in my pocket. Then he pulled two photographs out of his speckled parachute dress and asked: "Do you know who this...
...Souvenir collections (Jap helmet, canteen, gas mask, paper money) are still selling strong in New Britain, asking prices are in fresh eggs, steaks, oranges, canned goods. ¶Wristlets and watch bands made from scrap plane duraluminum, stamped "Guadalcanal," "Tarawa," etc., bring $8 to $15, depending on workmanship. Polished cat's-eye shells, strung as necklaces, range from...
...Helmet. Alexander is indifferent to heat, cold, rain, dust, danger and food. This convenient oblivion enables him to concentrate on tactics and strategy and a quiet craze for physical fitness in his troops. No matter how eccentric his dress, he usually looks neat as a pin and sharp as a tack...
...light grey flannel bush coat, khaki drill breeches, polo boots, Sam Browne belt, and an ancient stern-visored guardsman's cap, which he has clung to for years: it has been rebuilt three times. Neither at Dunkirk nor anywhere since then has he bothered to wear a steel helmet...