Shadow,
I found the companion to the photo you posted.... I guess this one is the legendary "three point shot?"
Actually, this helmet belonged to the great tactition, Major Baron Manfred Wolfgang Von Shuetzen, who on April 1, 1902, was enjoying target practice in the company of his faithful hund, Von Fido, when a shell case ejected from his Luger pistol landed squarely on the spike of his helmet! Upon hearing the telltale "clink," he carefully removed his helmet and looked at the impaled casing in complete astonishment.
Believing this to be an omen from God, the good Baron never wore the helmet again, but instead preserved it as a shrine in a special display case along side an identical helmet placed there in a similar case for comparison.
Little is known about the Baron's demise except that it involved a half empty bottle of schnapps and an unmarked well.. Anyway, some time during the war, the two cases were separated, never to be united again. Thus the reason for two photographs instead of one....
You have to believe me on this. After all, I work for the government so why should I lie?
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