A live action version of our classic video While the Italian Army tank crews of World War II were undoubtedly brave in combat, they lacked decent, modern day equipment and were hampered by extremely poor leadership. Sources / footage https://pastebin.com/qhFf77q2 | Simple History

313K views · 1.8K reactions | This staged clip is from the film "On the Firing Line with the Germans" and filmed in 1915 by Irving Ries. Durborough and Ries were embedded in the German Army and apparently were allowed to get German soldiers to make this footage. #WW1 #WWi #ww1history #capcut #history | This Day In WWI | Facebook

Anna Coleman Ladd was an American sculptor who is most well known for developing lifelike masks to help WW1 soldiers with facial deformities caused during combat. Soldiers came to Ladd’s studio to have a cast made of their face and their features sculpted onto clay or plasticine. Ladd would reference pre-injury photos of the soldiers to make masks as realistic as possible. This form was then used to construct the prosthetic piece from extremely thin galvanized copper. The metal was painted with