Hemingway's WWI Service
During his time in Italy during WWI, Ernest Hemingway suffered life-threatening injuries.
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Hemingway's WWI Service
Clip: Episode 1 | 3m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
During his time in Italy during WWI, Ernest Hemingway suffered life-threatening injuries.
During WWI, Ernest Hemingway joined the Red Cross Ambulance Service where he was sent to Italy, helping to gather the dead and tend to wounded soldiers. On July 8, 1918, while volunteering to pass out chocolate bars to men at a forward listening post, he was caught in the blast of an enemy mortar shell, injured by over 220 pieces of shrapnel, and was subsequently shot by an enemy machine gunner.
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Corporate funding for HEMINGWAY was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by the Annenberg Foundation, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, and by ‘The Better Angels Society,’ and...
Hemingway's WWI Service
Clip: Episode 1 | 3m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
During WWI, Ernest Hemingway joined the Red Cross Ambulance Service where he was sent to Italy, helping to gather the dead and tend to wounded soldiers. On July 8, 1918, while volunteering to pass out chocolate bars to men at a forward listening post, he was caught in the blast of an enemy mortar shell, injured by over 220 pieces of shrapnel, and was subsequently shot by an enemy machine gunner.
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