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Iraq War: flame thrower
Iraq War: flame thrower U.S. Army sergeant using a flame thrower to reduce enemy concealment and provide coalition forces with a clear line of site during the Iraq War, 2008.

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flame thrower, military assault weapon that projects a stream of blazing oil or thickened gasoline against enemy positions. As used in World War II and later wars it consisted basically of one or more fuel tanks, a cylinder of compressed gas to supply the propelling force, a flexible hose connected to the tanks, and a trigger-nozzle equipped with some means of igniting the fuel as it was spewed forth. The portable type, carried on the...

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