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Word: helmets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mask, which he would need more than legs in case of a heavy dust storm, and he had tucked away half a dozen pairs of flimsy Cellophane dust-goggles. He had pinched a piece of netting from a truck's camouflage to drape over his helmet-both for his personal camouflage and for swishing away flies. He had bound up the desert sores on the backs of his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: Blenheim? Waterloo? | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...what must have been a garden. A dud bomb is buried in the roadside mud. The front half of an armored car is parked in the shadow of what was once a house. A bent, bullet-riddled fragment of what had been a tank lies near a dirt-caked helmet. The helmet looks like a tortoise's back: it smells sour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: The Sour Smell of Death | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...jumper, he leaped five times from altitudes up to 16,500 feet, laden with his weight in equipment. His baggage: a device to measure altitude and his breathing rate; a microphone; a motion-picture camera to record turns of his body; a stop watch; a special oxygen mask and helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Parachutists' Sensations | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Injury. In Eire during invasion exercises a helmeted woman tending a soldier for bramble scratches dropped her helmet on his head, cut him, called an ambulance. Somebody slammed the ambulance door against his head. He arrived at the hospital with concussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 22, 1941 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...landed at Bandar Shahpur and, after a brief brush, made sure of the world's largest oil-cracking plant, at Abadan. Not needed were more Indian troops poised on the border of Baluchistan, where shaving the head and varnishing the skull is the poor man's pith helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IRAN: Persian Paradox | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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