For years, images purporting to show World War I-era prosthetic masks created by sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd for soldiers disfigured in battle have circulated online. These images depict ...

His new metallic masks, lightweight and more permanent than the rubber prosthetics previously issued ... of injuries that condemned men of the Great War to live behind their masks Anna Coleman ...

Rating: Mostly True (About this rating?) What's True: These prosthetics are authentic World War I-era masks made for soldiers wounded in battle. What's False: While Ladd led her team at the Studio ...