Flamethrower facts for kids

A soldier using a flamethrower in the Vietnam War

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 Brandkommando (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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  Boeotian flame thrower (model), Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum

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  German flamethrowers during the First World War on the Western Front, 1917

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  A Japanese soldier firing a Type 93 flamethrower

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  A Finnish soldier with a captured Soviet ROKS-3 flamethrower, June 1943. The flame projector has been designed to resemble a standard infantry rifle.

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  A riverboat of the U.S. Brownwater Navy shooting ignited napalm from its mounted flamethrower during the Vietnam war

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  An M67 "Zippo" tank of the USMC during the Vietnam War

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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 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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  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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  2nd Marine tank Battalion "Satan" incinerates Japanese pillbox on Saipan

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  An American flamethrower operator runs under fire

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  Front and rear views of a man with an M2A1-7 United States Army flamethrower

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