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History influenced Johnny Got His Gun
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
- World War I
The evidence
Dalton Trumbo drew on news reports of soldiers maimed beyond recognition in the First World War, and his hero is a young American soldier maimed on the Western Front.
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