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1918 Photograph
Artillery fire and bombs were an ever-constant threat for World War I soldiers in the trenches. Soldiers quickly learned to tell the difference between types of shells by the sounds they made. A seasoned soldier could quickly differentiate between exploding shells and gas shells.
