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<blockquote><div class="quotetitle">Quote from <a class="profile-link highlight-default" href="#">Guppy35</a> on April 6, 2021, 4:31 am</div>Got the helmet in hand today.  Feeling pretty good about it now.  Thanks for the insights.  I plan to keep hunting for more on Mr. Tydda and see if I can establish his time with the KM

Had a bit of a  flashback when I looked at the helmet up close.  It reminded me of the one I saw all those years ago hanging from my great uncle's wall.  I  As I tried to remember the colors, it was always my belief that the insides of that first helmet I saw was black.  Looking at the one  I got today, it also looks about black, but is a really dark gray green I believe.  Easy for a kid to mistake for black :)

Also interesting to look at the remnants of the decal.  Makes me wonder what was behind it's being scraped off, whether it was by Tydda himself, or someone in the family postwar.  I can't imagine that his being conscripted in and then working for the Brits and the OSS made him a great fan of the Third Reich.  Losing the swastika would have been a bit of a statement for sure.  Much like the LW unit during the B off B that scraped them off the tails of their 109s who then got 'branded' with the red bands around their cowls instead of the unit badge.

Regardless, it feels good to have a legit helmet in hand.  Almost feel like a grown up now :)

Dan

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