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Unread 04-29-2004, 11:18 PM   #10
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">I wonder why in all the other photos I've seen they had spikes and these guy's don't ?
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Because they belong to an artillery unit. These units wore the distictive ball top pickelhaube that was representative of the "cannon ball" projectile. Very much like a branch insignia today.
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