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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German Brennkommando (burning detachment) destroying Warsaw during the planned destruction of the city.
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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 British World War II-type "lifebuoy" flamethrower in 1944
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3 men with British World War II-type "lifebuoy" flamethrowers
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Marines engaging Japanese positions on Guam with a flamethrower.
