"Propagandistic images increased patriotism in a public relatively detached from events taking place overseas. This photograph, showing two United States soldiers sprinting past the bodies of two German soldiers toward a bunker, showed Americans the heroism evinced by their men in uniform. Likely a staged image taken after fighting ending, it nonetheless played on the public's patriotism, telling them to step up and support the troops. ""At close grips with the Hun, we bomb the corkshaffer's, etc.,"" c. 1922?. Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/91783839/."
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