This Week in Literary History: Ernest Hemingway is Wounded on the Italian Front
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On July 8, 1918, just two weeks shy of his 19th birthday, American Red Cross volunteer Ernest Hemingway was struck by an Austrian mortar shell while delivering chocolate to soldiers on the Italian front.
The shell landed about three feet from the teenage Hemingway, knocking him out and filling his legs with shrapnel. An Italian soldier standing between him and the blast was killed; another lost both legs in the explosion
On July 8, 1918, just two weeks shy of his 19th birthday, American Red Cross volunteer Ernest Hemingway was struck by an Austrian mortar shell while delivering chocolate to soldiers on the Italian front.
The shell landed about three feet from the teenage Hemingway, knocking him out and filling his legs with shrapnel. An Italian soldier standing between him and the blast was killed; another lost both legs in the explosion
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