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To: KitJ

Those are also from WWI.

They are German Mark 14 Scheisskopfers.

Used at night to listen for helicopters.


30 posted on 06/21/2019 3:47:36 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6
"They are German Mark 14 Scheisskopfers."

No, silly.

Biergießhorn. That's for drinking beer while you're laying down in the trenches. The glasses are to protect their eyes from people kicking dirt over the trench berm.

36 posted on 06/21/2019 3:59:29 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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