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New death: pictures of the flamethrower in action
New death: pictures of the flamethrower in action
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April 13, 2015
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Hannah Scally
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Flamethrowers — known as flammenwerfer or flame-projectors during the war — were a German invention. They appeared on the Western front in 1915. The special violence of death by fire was a shocking development, and the British press was fascinated by the gruesome new device. Wartime propaganda condemned them as another example of German ‘barbarism’, but the British army soon developed their own flamethrowers in response.
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Click on the pictures below to see the flamethrower and its effects.
An allied soldier shows a captured German flamethrower in 1917 (Illustrated War News, 17 October 1917)Canadian officers demonstrate the German ‘life-buoy’ flamethrower design (Illustrated War News, 5 September 1917)French soliders test a flamethrower (Illustrated London News, 11 September 1915)In Champagne: French ambulance-men leave their dugouts to watch the smoke from enemy flamethrowersAmadee Forestier’s illustration of a flamethrower in action, recently used for the first time on British troops at Hooge. (Illustrated London News, 21 August 1915)A British cartoon referring to the weapon. Caption reads ‘Victorous Thomas (to Hun flammenwerfer-carrier hors-de-combat): “Give Give us a drop of yer liquid fire. Fritz; me and my pal feels as ‘ow we could do with a drop of something warm.”‘ (The Sketch, 17 October 1917)R.Caton Woodville’s illustration (from an eye-witness account) of British soldiers under flamethrower attack on the Western Front. (Illustrated London News, 22 September 1917)
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