American infantrymen in Italy prepare hand grenades in a front line trench in the Piave. They screw down the detonators before hurling them into the nearby Austrian lines. This image was taken by a Signal Corps photographer on November 4, 1918. It was approved by the censor on November 8, 1918.

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