509th PIB helmet with yellow "little man in the door". The color yellow indicating assignment to Headquarters Company. Helmets were marked in this manner in Italy in 1944 and used to the end of the war. Inside this helmet shell is painted "Amos" in large yellow letters. Helmet belonging to Lt R. F. Amos (private collection)
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