Flamethrower facts for kids

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Flamethrower in Vietnam
A soldier using a flamethrower in the Vietnam War

A flamethrower is a device used to shoot fire. They are often used by the military.

Images for kids

  • German Brennkommando-firing Warsaw 1944

    German Brennkommando (Burning Detachment) destroying Warsaw during the planned destruction of the city.

  • Flame-thrower-new-orleans-show

    Army War Show November 27, 1942

  • Greekfire-madridskylitzes1

    Greek fire may have been an early version of the flamethrower.

  • Chinese Flamethrower

    A Chinese flamethrower from the Wujing Zongyao manuscript of 1044 AD, Song Dynasty.

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 183-R22888, Westfront, Flammenwerfer

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

  • ROKS-2 flamethrower

    A Soviet, ROKS–2 flamethrower in the Mikkeli Infantry museum, Mikkeli Finland (2011)

  • US riverboat using napalm in Vietnam

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

  • Marineflametank1968

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

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-299-1808-15A, Nordfrankreich, Soldat mit Flammenwerfer

    A German soldier operating a flamethrower in 1944

  • German soldier with flamethrower c1941

    A German soldier using a flamethrower in Russia

  • Type 93 flamethrower

    A Japanese soldier firing a Type 93 flamethrower

  • IWM-H-37975-Flame-thrower-lifebuoy

    A British World War II-type "lifebuoy" flamethrower in 1944

  • Churchill Crocodile 01

    A Churchill tank fitted with a Crocodile flamethrower in action.

  • Flamethrower Tarakan (108558)

    An Australian soldier fires a flamethrower at a Japanese bunker

  • Aa workmen with lifebuoyflamethrowers

    3 men with British World War II-type "lifebuoy" flamethrowers

  • USm2flamethrower

    A soldier from the 33rd Infantry Division uses an M2 flamethrower

  • Flamethrower at Adelup Point

    Marines engaging Japanese positions on Guam with a flamethrower.

  • Saipan flamethrower

    US forces use a tank-mounted flamethrower to incinerate a Japanese pillbox

  • Flamethrower-iwo-jima-194502

    An American flamethrower operator runs under fire

  • Usafl rend

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


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