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05-11-2021, 09:14 PM
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WW1 Facial Destruction
“The sky was full of shattered iron. Usually the first thing exposed to this shattered iron were human faces. If soldiers were not killed immediately, those who survived could be horribly disfigured,” says Doran Cart, senior curator at the National World War I Museum and Memorial. “This was a graphic war. There were losses of cheekbones, causing the whole face to sink in. Jaws would be completely decimated. When you put up human flesh and bone against 8 millimeter machine guns, shell fragments and shrapnel, there was no contest.
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