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The trenches, courage and the lives changed by the Great War.
2 stories. Choose a photo to watch the reel and explore the evidence.
Liquid Fire: When the Trench Became a Trap
What portable flamethrowers did to trench warfare, and to the men ordered to carry them.
Watch & read the story →U.S. soldiers with captured German flamethrowers, 1918. Still from the reel.
Henry Johnson: A Hero’s Welcome, an Unequal Home
Celebrated for courage in France, he returned to a country that still treated Black soldiers unequally.
Watch & read the story →Henry Johnson, 1919. U.S. Army photograph; still from the reel.