Flamethrower facts for kids
A flamethrower is a device used to shoot fire. They have been used by the military since the days of Greek fire. Most modern military flamethrowers project flaming liquids.
Flamethrowers became rare in the 19th century, due to improvements in other weapons. Trench warfare made them more useful again, and the German army began using them in 1915,
Images for kids
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Japanese flamethrower (American design from World War II) Type 93.
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German Brennkommando (burning detachment) destroying Warsaw during the planned destruction of the city.
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Army War Show November 27, 1942.
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Greek fire may have been an early version of the flamethrower
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German flamethrowers during the First World War on the Western Front, 1917
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A Finnish soldier with a captured Soviet ROKS-3 flamethrower, June 1943. Note the flame projector has been designed to resemble a standard infantry rifle
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A German soldier operating a flamethrower in 1944
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A German soldier using a flamethrower in Russia
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A Japanese soldier firing a Type 93 flamethrower
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A British World War II-type "lifebuoy" flamethrower in 1944
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A Churchill tank fitted with a Crocodile flamethrower in action.
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An Australian soldier fires a flamethrower at a Japanese bunker
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3 men with British World War II-type "lifebuoy" flamethrowers
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A soldier from the 33rd Infantry Division uses an M2 flamethrower
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Marines engaging Japanese positions on Guam with a flamethrower.
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US forces use a tank-mounted flamethrower to incinerate a Japanese pillbox
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An American flamethrower operator runs under fire
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Front and rear views of a man with a M2A1-7 United States Army flamethrower
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