Today I started looking around online at WW1 helmets, in hopes to find one that looked like the one I saw in my PL flashback.
There were quite a few that looked similar, but this one is the one that looks most like it. Though I was only seeing it from the top/back as it was resting on a comrades neck/back of head~ (I apparently can't post links, even for pictures, so take this, add http and take out the spaces)
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The relatively shallow domed top and the flat rim is certainly the closest I could find to the helmet the man in the flashback was wearing!
It's the helmet of the USA 3rd Infantry Division~ This is where I think it gets very interesting
I looked up the division and read into the part they played in WW1, when I stumbled across something that I never expected to find.
The 7th Machine Gun Battalion of the 3rd Division.
Last month I asked on a thread in another forum for help in finding a military button that I had as a child, and someone there linked me to a site with a list of WWI regimental cap badges, which I took a thorough look at. Only one stood out to me (though it wasn't the button I was looking for).
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Thanks Helz! The only one that seemed familiar to me is the Guards Machine Gun Battalion badge, but looking at...
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Back when I had my first PL flashback I had the very faint thought/feeling of a river, but I assumed it was something that I'd perhaps misremembered or made up, like grasping at straws, but I've just discovered the 3rd Infantry Division (including the 7th Machine Gun Battalion) fought at the
Marne River in France!
I feel like this is all far from coincidence!
I hope I can find out much more!
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