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10-02-2017 08:22 PM
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Checking out confiscated civilian weapons?
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From friends of mine that were there at the time, there was a bit of everything. The difference was according to him, the owner had to come up and smash the butt across the curb stones before throwing it into the pile.
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Don't know if I would have worn those bulls eyes on my helmet, 
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those bulls eyes on my helmet,
Those won't make much of an aiming mark, we teach to shoot center of the visible mass.
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Don't know if I would have worn those bulls eyes on my helmet,
84th Division (The Railsplitters) Attachment 87599
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My shooting buddy Lloyd - His brother William was in the 84th - Lloyd said his parents never got over his loss
On 23 February 1945, the second day of Operation Grenade, the division cut across the Roer, took Boisheim and Dülken
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Those won't make much of an aiming mark, we teach to shoot center of the visible mass.
I think it would be for a sniper with only a head shot available sticking up out of a fox hole or looking out the window. Same as putting a bulls eye on your helmet easy to see with a scope in fact a nice white one, easier to see. I wouldn't want it on my helmet. Ray
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My uncle E. B. (Burr) Hollinger was 84th ID, 333rd IR. He was an S1 second lieutenant. I have a few pages from the unit log book that he filled out. Interesting read with casualty count, prisoner count, distance traveled, towns and villages liberated, etc.
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If that was on my helmet I think it just might, accidentally of course, get really muddy
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