War Souvenir
After diligent search,' Louis Hayward has finally located the shrap-nel-punctured helmet he wore the day he stormed in at Tarawa with one of the first waves of Marines. Hayward, star of Eagle-Lion’s “Repeat Performance” valued his headpiece because it wa's a graphic souvenir of the bitter fighting that marked the landing. But the helmet had been missing for months, until the actor thought he spotted something with a familiar look hanging in the garden with philodendron trailing over its sides. Sure enough, it was the missing helmet which his wife the former Peggy Morrow, admitted she had turned into a hanging pot, because it was. ideally suited for the purpose, complete with drainage holes from the shrapnel hits!
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 2, 1 October 1948, Page 3
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120War Souvenir Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 2, 1 October 1948, Page 3
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