mwindsorfw | 09 Jul 2017 10:09 a.m. PST |
link I've seen this photo for years and wondered the same thing. What is the octopus-looking thing strapped to the medic's helmet? |
foxweasel | 09 Jul 2017 11:32 a.m. PST |
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Ed Mohrmann | 09 Jul 2017 11:34 a.m. PST |
I've no idea – but here's a website for reenactors which has photo's of all sorts of equipment, including Medic equipment. It's pretty comprehensive but I could NOT find anything like that item secured to the helmet's headband. link |
mwindsorfw | 09 Jul 2017 11:50 a.m. PST |
The link in my post should go right to the photo. The soldier in the front right, leaning over the wounded man. |
Private Matter | 09 Jul 2017 12:02 p.m. PST |
The link for to google search results for Hue Battle Photo images. |
Herkybird | 09 Jul 2017 12:50 p.m. PST |
Is the picture concerned, I think. |
mwindsorfw | 09 Jul 2017 1:33 p.m. PST |
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Kevin C | 09 Jul 2017 2:13 p.m. PST |
Looks to me like something he took off of some Cthulu worshiping Cong that he came across in country. |
foxweasel | 09 Jul 2017 2:16 p.m. PST |
Looks a bit odd, could it be a kids rubber spider. There seems to be a lot of weird stuff kept in helmet bands, most of which are just kids fashions. |
whitphoto | 09 Jul 2017 5:11 p.m. PST |
A crab he's saving for a snack later? |
Ironwolf | 09 Jul 2017 10:22 p.m. PST |
It looked like a rubber spider to me so I looked up vintage rubber toys. Seems in the mid 60's to early 70's these were found in dime shops. They're called Oily Rubber Jiggler Monsters. When I did a search online you can find dozens of different types of them. The Marine he is taking care of, the one with the bandage around his chest, is Alvin Bert Grantham from Mobile, Alabama. Here is the story of this famous photo with Alvin Grantham in it. link |
Darkest Star Games | 11 Jul 2017 8:04 a.m. PST |
Ironwolf has it! Did some research on this very subject a few years ago, and used to have a pic of the rubber spider (the one in the Hue picture has lost a couple of legs and the abdomen) though it's on an old and dead machine. The write up about Mr. Grantham is pretty intense, thank you for posting that. A story that should have been told before. Maybe in the new Vietnam documentary series we will hear more. |
Virginia Tory | 20 Feb 2018 8:56 a.m. PST |
Bought more than a few of those to scare my sister with when I was a kid! |