Flamethrower
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A flamethrower is a ranged incendiary device designed to project a controllable jet of fire. First deployed by the Byzantine Empire in the 7th century AD, flamethrowers saw use in modern times during
A Type 93 flamethrower used by the Imperial Japanese Army, drawing made for the US Military Intelligence Service
German Brandkommando (burning detachment) destroying Warsaw during the planned destruction of the city
Army War Show November 27, 1942
Boeotian flame thrower (model), Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum
Napalm
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Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical. The name is a portmanteau of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: coprecipitated alum
Flamethrower
…to light, which is why magnesium-filled igniters are required when the weapon is fired. When pierced by a bullet, a metal can filled with diesel or napalm will merely leak unless the round is an incendiary type that may ignite the mixture inside. The best way to minimize the disadvantages of flame weapons…
Results of a napalm strike by the United States Army Air Force on a Japanese outpost off the coast of the island of Borneo
A "Zippo" riverboat of the US Brown-water navy firing an ignited napalm mixture from a riverboat-mounted flamethrower in Vietnam
Phan Thi Kim Phuc, burned with napalm at the age of 9 during the Vietnam War (1972)