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    This is an interesting find. North Vietnamese Army helmets on display at the Wrocław War Museum. The question is, how did they get all the way from there to here? 🤔
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    This is an interesting find. North Vietnamese Army helmets on display at the Wrocław War Museum. The question is, how did they get all the way from there to here? 🤔

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    1. hhuzar on

      During the whole period that ended up named Vietnam War, there was this thing established: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Control_Commission](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Control_Commission) and Poland was a prominent member of it. This also mean a permanent presence of diplomatic forces in the whole Indochina area. There were many occasions to get Vietnamese helmets.

    2. guywithskyrimproblem on

      I guess Vietnam sent some helmets after the war to the USSR and they sent some to Poland (or had some stored in the garrisons)

    3. enqvistx on

      Off topic but why is there a leather strap with simplified Chinese characters on the green Vietnamese helmet?

    7. presiskoRycerz on

      I taught English at a polish army base when poland first joined NATO. They had a collection of hats there too. It might be a polish army thing, to collect hats.

    8. Stahwel on

      Helmets are really easy to buy even if you’re an individual person, some are just expensive.

    9. taimur1128 on

      When I was at the Wrocław war museum I was very impressed by the fact they had Portuguese WW1, I haven’t seen them back home in Portugal. They have quite an interesting collection of helmets in there.