Hooge is a small village on the Bellewaerde Ridge, about 4 kilometres east of Ypres in the Flemish province of West Flanders in Belgium. Hooge and the nearby locations of Bellewaerde and Zillebeke were merged into Ypres in 1976. The economy of Hooge is dominated by tourism and agriculture. Tourists are attracted by the World War I battlefields as well as Bellewaerde, the oldest operating theme park in Belgium.
View of Hooge from the south, with the military cemetery clearly visible
Entrance to Bellewaerde amusement park
Entrance to Hooge Crater Cemetery with Cross of Sacrifice and the stone-faced circle designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in memory of the many craters nearby
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 World War I, and more widely in World War II as a tactical weapon against fortifications.
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
