There livespan was short, like most infantry. They were held in the rear of the infantry advance till ready to be called up. They were covered by rifle and machine gun fire to get their job done.
@@TheFlamethrowerExperts 16 percent of the infantry died in the war so for 84 percent of them their lifespan the entire war sooooo I don't think with the 16 percent killed you could work out any averages like 35 minutes that is so retarded
For those who dont know, the ignitor on the end of it is that round block they put in the nozzle. It has 5 magnesium charges that are started by pulling the front trigger. A flamethrower Marine was carrying dead weight unless he had other charges packed with him. Because after all 5 are used which they dont last long, youre walking around with whatever fuel you still had on your back. The Japanese had flamethrowers also but only really used them when they were in an offensive postion prior to the US entering the war, essentially when they were purly in a defensive position when we joined the fight and didnt have a use for them. I guess Karma caught up to them. Also yes the average life expectency of a Flamethrower Marine was extremely low. I know of a story from a friends grandpa of when he got appendicitis prior to landing on Iwo Jima so he got pulled before it and after his surgery he was the only flame thrower marine left.
More like your chillin in a cave and suddenly you feel uncordinated and lethargic. You resist the urge to sleep but to no avail as your vision starts going black at the edges, slowly fading to unconsciousness. Fire eats oxygen and it was the more useful aspect when it came to rooting out the enemy.
@@cadennorris960 they did they flame it while they approached it and then they’d throw a satchel charge the cave entrance to seal the cave marines will talk about how they can hear them trying to dig out
OH That's really smart, instead of a pilot light, it uses friction like a flint rod. That way the liquid can be expelled at a safe distance so it can't overheat the nozzle, and that distance is the choke because it suppresses air intake! Beautiful engineering.
Its actually a cluster of flare charges, that's what the black cylinder he loaded in first is. But it was done for all those exact reasons. You get a couple strikes for separate uses or in case a few don't light
@@ProfessorPootisit seems to me that after he pulled the trigger a few times the lighting mechanism stopped lighting the fuel. If that is the case then it’s not a good idea because after every 4 to 5 pulls you have to stop and change out the charging device.
Love it how bf1 flame thrower was extremely bad then we had the crappy pistol flame thrower which was even more useless and then there was the pick up flamethrower which kills everyone in 2 frame
My uncle carried one of those for the entire pacific theater. So folks They were definitely a target But alot of them were damn smart country boys. Of course he preferred his BAR But he knew how to use this better than anyone. Burning people alive wounded him for life. His stories were incredible, and they belong to me now. God bless ya red Miss ya brother
Saw an interview with a WW2 vet who fought on Iwo Jima and used a flamethrower. The part the stuck out to me was that he said that all the guys who had flamethrowers volunteered for the job. These guys had nerves of steel, sheesh. I couldnt picture myself running into a battlefield with a fuel tank strapped to my back
The fuel tanks wasn't much of a concern as far as exploding goes even if punctured it still requires a spark to be ignited, but yes you had to be built different to volunteer for a flame thrower job.
That episode of the Shawn Ryan Show with guest Don Graves was definitely a really great interview. It got me thinking which way would someone want to go if they had to choose between either being killed via a flamethrower or by having a special operations dog fly through the air like Superman and tear someone to shreds. Either way that just sounds like a bad day at the office.
Do you know what the M-97 Flamethrower sounds like? It roars like a dragon, a fiery god purging everything in it's path. Hold down the trigger and the "woosh" drowns out everything else, focus on the noise and you almost convince yourself you don't hear the screams. By the time the tank is empty, everything is over, even the men are quiet. There's nothing but the crackling of burning thatch. You see, it's not the noise that keeps me awake at night, it's the silence.
Flamethrowers were used by the German army against Allied troops in World War I. In World War II flamethrowers were fueled with napalm, which burned with intense heat and clung to its target. In the 1950s the United States developed a one-shot portable flamethrower for use in close range against fortified positions.
my grandmother lived on lake worth, tx and she and her neighbors lived in fear of the cattails marching up to the shoreline and "blocking the view" she and her co worker, both telephone operators, employed several methods of attack but my favourite one was the WW2 surplus flame thrower they acquired in the late 40s. i would give a lot to have seen 2 drunken telephone operators out on the beach waving that thing around. they knew quite a few officers, acquisition of it would have been easy
@TheFlamethrowerExperts this is pure diesel? The diesel used in flamethrowers is a mixture... the military flame throwers leave a substance on the surface that keep burning for a while. These flames didn't even hit the ground.
@@TheFlamethrowerExperts the notable difference between using diesel and napalm is with napalm it spews out as a liquid, coating everything in fire rather than burning up before contact. Very scary
In Eugene Sledges’s book, he describes that not only does this burn you to death, but when it’s used on an enclosed area such as a bunker or a cave, all the oxygen is consumed by the flame so you’re both suffocating and burning to death
@tomr6955eb sledge was trained for a mortar squad. He fought on Pelielu and Okinawa. He probably either saw it first hand or talked to a surviving flamethrower marine
Fire needs oxygen to burn, humans need oxygen to live, inside an enclosed space their is limited oxygen, said fire will use the oxygen so humans inside can't use oxygen to live, that's how humans suffocate @tomr6955
@tomr6955 Eugene Sledge's dad was a doctor, so it's safe to say he was probably educated. Also, a lot of the bunkers they cleared with flamethrowers weren't filled with charred bodies. The soldiers suffocated while laying down on the ground.
My step mothers grandfather served in WW2 and according to his stories he was one of the guys running up and clearing areas with a flamethrower when either a hose or a tank busted and he took all the fuel to the face. It damaged his eyes terribly eventually leading to his blindness. The man was a hell of a warrior and would even play the harmonica sitting on the couch for us with his eyes trained to a painting of his long past wife. Even without seeing the entire image he still knew what or who he was looking at
There are interviews with WW2 veterans and one was a flamethrower operator, he mentioned that you only have a handful 2-second bursts in those tanks, this guy probably emptied them.
My grandfather on my dads side left Germany, when quote, his “neighbors and social peers gradually got more insane, with no change in how many were sick”. He made it to America w/ his young wife(my grandmother) and lived in Springfield, NJ in the house my father ect ect grew up in. Since he was a German immigrant, when he enlisted in the US Military... he wasent allowed to be deployed to Germany. So for World War II he was sent to Japan. Believe it or not, this is what he did “bunker clearing with flamethrower”. The navy battleships basically flattened the whole island and destroyed the coast line at first. So they basically sent in huge units to clear bunkers, dugouts, ect ect. There was about 5-6 men that always stuck with/coordinated with one flamethrower guy like a team. They all knew how to use it if needed and could coordinate with another flamethrower and his guys for larger/difficult bunkers, machine gun nest. It may sound very cool, but he said it was horrifying in retrospect.
в России многие люди сейчас ощущают то что чувствовал ваш дедушка в Германии перед отъездом. в обществе слишком много жестокости. мы так быстро скатились до ужасных мыслей и слов, которые говорят обычные люди. ужас
In ww2 and the Vietnam war, it used a Napalm and gasoline mixture, meaning it was very stiky, also it shot a good distance, a true flame thrower. nowadays, Napalm is illegal to buy and own
I saw a demo of one of these a few years ago, I was sitting a considerable distance away, and I could not believe the intense heat that thing gave off even from that far away! Nasty weapon!!
Fun fact: if a flamethrower reached a enemy position, like a machinegun nest, he would soak the whole thing with fuel, 99% of the time the enemies just leave without offering resistance
So you me he just "shot" the fuel out the flame thrower, without igniting it before, on the enemies, and they had at least a chance to get out alive?! So he could use the flame thrower to burn them, or they would ignite themselves when they start shooting after they were soaked with fuel, so they just chose to run away?!
@@IronWarrior95 its both parts of the history, its a threat and a calm way to prevent them to fight back, all they can use at that point its their melee equipment since a little spark can burn them all And most of the time they make them prisioners you know, Geneva suggestion
@@IronWarrior95 In a similar vein, flamethrower tanks would often fire off a few bursts from outside their effective range, announcing their presence. Most soldiers surrendered on the spot.
We made flame throwers out of herbicide backpack sprayers and drip torch nozzles to burn slash piles when I worked as a forestry tech. Not quite as powerful as this thing but still pretty fun.
I met an old veteran who told me they would turn off the pilot light, soak the Japanese in the bunker in fuel, they stand around like wtf, then ignite it.
The fact that it was napalm they were throwing is just horrifying. Lots of cave defenders wouldn’t even die of the direct flames, they would have suffocated from the immense oxygen being sucked out of the closed space and the insane temperatures
Check out the pulse fire. You can buy them on Palmetto arms for about 400. There's on with a quarter gallon tank that you can put on your AR and another that has backpack thing that allows 4 minutes of flames.
I got mine from the local mcdonalds near me. I ordered it as a toy for my happy meal... Too bad they're not selling the toy anymore as they deem it to be "danerous and hazardous to everyting" Its total bs
Buy a 2.5 gallon refillable water fire extinguisher, a 6" piece of 1/4" steel tubing, and a propane trigger ignition torch. Shove tubing down rubber hose and weld torch to tube. Fill with gasoline/diesel mix. Pressurize with air compressor and fire away. Range 25 yards
@@brianwilson4861think there’s a few videos of people using scuba tanks and CO2 tanks from paintball guns to make em……along with a pressure washer gun to use as the torch😬
I got to see one of these demonstrated once as a kid, maybe early teens. I was about 30 yards away, and (obviously) it wasn't pointed in my direction, and still, it was the most intense heat I've ever experienced in my life. Even hiding behind my dad to escape the heat, I physically couldn't bear it. Can NOT imagine being on either the giving or receiving end of this thing.
Ooooh that’s what those things are for!!!! I found 3 of those in my gramps garage after he passed away. Thought it was a back pack jet wash so binned them😢
Coming to this a little late, but while the movie is always show the flames were exploding and everything else - the reason you had all these people providing covering fire is because the flamethrower is brought up to take out typically fortified positions. So these are dug in, often concrete, pppositions with interlocking fields of fire, which combined with mines created what still are affectionately known as "kill zones." So the individuals in the fortified position are watching for all those annoying people trying to throw explosives and other unpleasantness into their firing slot. They are routinely supplied with machine guns and lots and lots of ammunition. Flamethrowers are a nice way to deal with these positions because of the flaming liquid aspect. So instead of the hand grenade bouncing off the lip of the firing slit, there is clinging and dripping napalm getting partially on to the inside of it and obscuring their shooting. At which point the flamethrower operator corrects his aiming point slightly, and it's now going directly into the fortification. Which means the guys in that fortification are going to be very very interested in shooting him. Of course without him they are going to be busily shooting the rest of the platoon. This is one of those cases I would much rather provide fire support for the flamethrower operator then to be him. Those soldiers were truly brave - also possible fire bugs, but sometimes you just need to enjoy your work. :)
Wielding a flamethrower is not as cool as one would imagine, you literally need to be within spitting distance of your enemy for your weapon to be useful. That’s terrifying
Me grandad usmc , was flame thrower operator on iwojima , he got blown up back filled with volcanic debris rock and ash.. Military told him there's nothing they can do. he lived till 1994
Good friend of mine i worked with for years at concord lumbers cabinet shop here in new Hampshire Ray Bolby i hope i spelled name right! anyway he was a marine who used a flame thrower and landed on Okinawa with first wave of marines . He was close to retirement i was about 18 he was teaching or trying to teach me to build cabinets . When i found he was a marine fought in world war two i of course would ask questions about his experience with utmost respect ....mostly. he told me some stories that were to my young naive dumb ass i thought were embellishments...like he said sometimes after blasting out bunkers or pill boxes they would look inside and find the enemy dead without burns said they suffocated because the air had been sucked up from the flame theowers blast. Another time after reading a book he lent me written by i think William manchester titled "good bye darkness" which i recommend... I stupidly asked him about collecting gold teeth . I realized i had gone to far when i saw his jaw muscles in his cheek tense up and that strange look like his eyes would go out of focus he would mumble something and walk away after sending me to the board field looking for the elusive birds eye maple boards for a customers cabinets. I always thought it was punishment but it was actually him wanting me to think about things . Next morning i was clocked in talking with old eddie degrenier hope i spelled it right.... He was another vet who was in the air force during world war two Raymond came in walked by us and casually tossed a dungaree bag on the work table i was reading some blueprints on looking at it i looked at eddie questioningly he got a hard look in his eyes and walked away i guess him and ray had spoken about my questions day before .i opened it up and yeah there was a bunch of human teeth in there with gold fillings. I started being embarrassed but then i got really emotional almost crying i realised his life at my age was not about partying smoking grass drinking and chasing girls around with my mustang he was fighting for his life and doing things to other young men that today seem horrific but to them it was not. I never doubted those guys again who worked for that company all their lives raised families after basically saving the damned world ....i never got a chance to thank raymond and the other guys for what they did and for putting up with me actually i grew up without a dad at home and they in many ways taught me how to be a man not a punk they have all passed away and where ever they are now... after all those years ago... im in my sixties....I want to say thank you to ray and Eddie and Gerry foster and all the good people that serve and have served for your sacrifices so people like me could have a live of safety...... Thank you and ray eddie and Gerry rest in peace you dont need me to say it but i do appreciate the time i had working with you guys i wish i could have realized it more back then...💪
Fun fact, in WW2 US told that from flamethrower was a weapon of mercy, like you die fking fast, but soon they know that soldier die in agony also soldiers who hide in bunkers die from toxic also in agony
Cleverly analyzed my friend. Always wondered how those actually worked. I presume immense heat generated, hence the need for fire retardant (military) outer wear ?
Fun fact the average lifespan of a flamethrower marine in ww2 was 35 minutes
Wrong.
Lifespan from when exactly? Combat isn't a video game there isn't a level start. Campaigns go on for weeks and months. These stats are retarded
@@insideoutsideupsidedown2218”where’s your source?” “my source is that i made it the fuck up!”
There livespan was short, like most infantry. They were held in the rear of the infantry advance till ready to be called up. They were covered by rifle and machine gun fire to get their job done.
@@TheFlamethrowerExperts 16 percent of the infantry died in the war so for 84 percent of them their lifespan the entire war sooooo
I don't think with the 16 percent killed you could work out any averages like 35 minutes that is so retarded
"It's great but, can we do anything about the heat?"
"Not really, no. It's a flamethrower."
Lol once upon a time in Hollywood
@jobe_seed6674 nice catch not to many would have see that
@@jobe_seed6674saw the interview where they said it wasnt even on script either it was a genuine reaction 😂
"Yeah"
Lmao great movie.
Flamethrowers in ww2 definitely had some of the biggest balls in the war
Yep! They wore the biggest bullseyes on the battlefield.
No doubt, but also had some of the shortest lives.
Where do I buy one?
@@RoadWarrior-lo9vtBiggest targets, 🎯 for scout snipers 😅😅😅. Not enough time to take it off kaboom 😂❤❤❤❤🤣
@@Inyourhideyholeexcept bullets didn't set off the tanks. It took a flame source to do that.
Just imagine been caught in a bunker with this guy
We've seen combat, but imagine the level of sheer terror in hearing that flamethrower ignite. It had to be terrifying.
Honestly with the amount of bullets deafening you. You probably wouldn’t hear it at all just see fire jump at u
Not only this sound but the screams of people, weapons shots bombs tanks and all the other many things
@@greentip5.56 not to mention artillery,bombs and multiple grenades going off all good things for your ears when you turn 60
For those who dont know, the ignitor on the end of it is that round block they put in the nozzle. It has 5 magnesium charges that are started by pulling the front trigger. A flamethrower Marine was carrying dead weight unless he had other charges packed with him. Because after all 5 are used which they dont last long, youre walking around with whatever fuel you still had on your back. The Japanese had flamethrowers also but only really used them when they were in an offensive postion prior to the US entering the war, essentially when they were purly in a defensive position when we joined the fight and didnt have a use for them. I guess Karma caught up to them. Also yes the average life expectency of a Flamethrower Marine was extremely low.
I know of a story from a friends grandpa of when he got appendicitis prior to landing on Iwo Jima so he got pulled before it and after his surgery he was the only flame thrower marine left.
thanks! that was a neat factoid!
Thats an INSANE bit of trivia and title "The last flamethrower"
Wow, that is incredible.
Amazing.
So the ignition system accounts for the Limited number of bursts? I wasn't sure if Limited volume of fuel was responsible.
Love the fact that you wore the Marine outfit of WW2 to go with this timeless piece!
It's probably more flame retardant than civilian clothing. I also don't actually know but at least everything is covered
love the fact that they fired at a bunch of green trees
Lol had to go back and watch after I read your comment😅😂
JAPAN
@@captainrusca "japan" yet in todays age america is overly obsessed with us japanese lol
Imagine you're just chillin in a cave and this big ass flame ball is getting thrown at you!
More like your chillin in a cave and suddenly you feel uncordinated and lethargic. You resist the urge to sleep but to no avail as your vision starts going black at the edges, slowly fading to unconsciousness. Fire eats oxygen and it was the more useful aspect when it came to rooting out the enemy.
@@connoranderson9028I thought flame throwers were used against bunkers and such while they would just use explosives to collapse any cave entrances.
Why would you be chillin in a cave while dudes with flamethrowers running about the countryside?
More like the air gets sucked out of the Cave and they pass out
@@cadennorris960 they did they flame it while they approached it and then they’d throw a satchel charge the cave entrance to seal the cave marines will talk about how they can hear them trying to dig out
OH
That's really smart, instead of a pilot light, it uses friction like a flint rod.
That way the liquid can be expelled at a safe distance so it can't overheat the nozzle, and that distance is the choke because it suppresses air intake!
Beautiful engineering.
Idk if beautiful is a great word for this war crime squirt gun
Its actually a cluster of flare charges, that's what the black cylinder he loaded in first is. But it was done for all those exact reasons. You get a couple strikes for separate uses or in case a few don't light
@@ProfessorPootisit seems to me that after he pulled the trigger a few times the lighting mechanism stopped lighting the fuel. If that is the case then it’s not a good idea because after every 4 to 5 pulls you have to stop and change out the charging device.
@@warrenlancaster9305those flamethrowers only had like 10 seconds of fuel so 4-5 trigger pulls was all you got
@@warrenlancaster9305I don’t think they were trained to let go of the trigger tbh.
I can’t even imagine the psychological trauma a soldier using this would have gone through. Imagine burning someone to death.
Ahh you whinging so much...
Sarcasm.
I've heard you had to volunteer and want to do it.
@@nickt6980 What kind of a fucked up individual would ask to do this!?
@@rachelpurity1 Guess the ones that accepted someone had to do it
The trauma of the guy using it??? I’m single the other guy the other end 😂
Battlefield: *_"2 damage per tic, take it or leave it"_*
True bro
Shut up and go outside
Love it how bf1 flame thrower was extremely bad then we had the crappy pistol flame thrower which was even more useless and then there was the pick up flamethrower which kills everyone in 2 frame
@@shadownight9956you meant bf5 right? Bf1 flamethrower was a beast
@@adreft nahhh bf1 flamethrower absolutely sucked
That's one way to get rid of the mosquitoes in your yard
And the Vietcong hiding in the trees.
Nothing kills mosquitos. They were invented by Satan to make life miserable.
And some ugly evil spiders !!! ! !!!
And illegal immigrants
@@Clarence_Top_Glmao Gabot needs you
I appreciate that he dressed for the role... Garand thumb and all. 😂
My uncle carried one of those for the entire pacific theater.
So folks
They were definitely a target
But alot of them were damn smart country boys.
Of course he preferred his BAR
But he knew how to use this better than anyone. Burning people alive wounded him for life. His stories were incredible, and they belong to me now.
God bless ya red
Miss ya brother
Damn smart country boy seems like an oxymoron
share some
If anything he told you was true, he never would have told ya
He must have been the most lucky person in the war because those boys died quick.
I think it’s amazing to have stories like that big ups to u my brother them men back then fighting were the real GOATS
Somehow in WW1 the Germans thought the pump shotgun was *worse* than their version of this Hell Inna Stick.
They thought that the fan pump on the Winchester trench sweeper was worse. It was basically just as potent but with alot less suffering to be honest.
@@LordOfAlwar True. Id rather take buckshot center mass than be fully engulfed in flames.....if I had to make that choice.
The life expectancy is actually 10minutes
@@donaldmack2307it depends if you have 3rd degree burns you won’t feel anything but yes buskshotbwould definitely be preferable
I wager that getting lit up like human candles changed their minds.
Saw an interview with a WW2 vet who fought on Iwo Jima and used a flamethrower.
The part the stuck out to me was that he said that all the guys who had flamethrowers volunteered for the job. These guys had nerves of steel, sheesh. I couldnt picture myself running into a battlefield with a fuel tank strapped to my back
The fuel tanks wasn't much of a concern as far as exploding goes even if punctured it still requires a spark to be ignited, but yes you had to be built different to volunteer for a flame thrower job.
That episode of the Shawn Ryan Show with guest Don Graves was definitely a really great interview. It got me thinking which way would someone want to go if they had to choose between either being killed via a flamethrower or by having a special operations dog fly through the air like Superman and tear someone to shreds. Either way that just sounds like a bad day at the office.
@@SoCaliSurfer13yeah a really cool interview
Interviewer......The War must have taught you a few valuable lessons?
Spike Milligan....Yes......Hiding being the most important....
holy shit you're right, if even tiny piece of shrapnel hit those tanks by chance that guy gets vaporized.
Perfect for home defense
If you also want your home burnt down in the process
@@ggsap😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Do you know what the M-97 Flamethrower sounds like? It roars like a dragon, a fiery god purging everything in it's path. Hold down the trigger and the "woosh" drowns out everything else, focus on the noise and you almost convince yourself you don't hear the screams. By the time the tank is empty, everything is over, even the men are quiet. There's nothing but the crackling of burning thatch. You see, it's not the noise that keeps me awake at night, it's the silence.
It's when the demons in your head go quiet that you know you've lost it
@@thuokagiri5550I actually think that’s how you know you’re sane.
“Do you know what the M-97 Flamethrower sounds like Ernie?”
@@hiddensquid335this is terrifying for a specific reason.
@@hiddensquid335was looking for this comment.
Flamethrowers were used by the German army against Allied troops in World War I. In World War II flamethrowers were fueled with napalm, which burned with intense heat and clung to its target. In the 1950s the United States developed a one-shot portable flamethrower for use in close range against fortified positions.
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The Entente used it just as much as the Germans did in ww1 but the Germans invented it in 1911 and used it first
Invented by engineer Richard Fiedler
"Солнцепеку" расскажи.
It's a Flammenwerfer. It werfs Flammen. 😊
So your telling me a flamethrower actually throws flames 😮
I thought it was water🤯
@@jordin1909you don't get it
Hans, I know vat zat eez. I asked for eet.
@@jordin1909r/wooosh
my grandmother lived on lake worth, tx and she and her neighbors lived in fear of the cattails marching up to the shoreline and "blocking the view" she and her co worker, both telephone operators, employed several methods of attack but my favourite one was the WW2 surplus flame thrower they acquired in the late 40s. i would give a lot to have seen 2 drunken telephone operators out on the beach waving that thing around.
they knew quite a few officers, acquisition of it would have been easy
Ah yes the vintage rice cooker
Now THAT is some good dark humor!
@@jacksonlee6760and I love it. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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I can hear the souls screaming everytime it's being used
Haha just like my motorcycle. Jk
@@AvenValkyr as they should..... burning people alive is just crazy and vile....
gay
And poping of the flesh and the smell
~ WW2 marine (in an interview)
@@fbi7817fellas, is it gay to recognize the vile, sadistic nature of man?
That’s the Hollywood movie fuel version. The actual real thing uses napalm but movies don’t use it because it is really, really dangerous stuff.
In this, we are using diesel, they used it in the war as well, but yes this fuel is more theatrical
@TheFlamethrowerExperts this is pure diesel? The diesel used in flamethrowers is a mixture... the military flame throwers leave a substance on the surface that keep burning for a while. These flames didn't even hit the ground.
@@TheFlamethrowerExperts the notable difference between using diesel and napalm is with napalm it spews out as a liquid, coating everything in fire rather than burning up before contact. Very scary
@@DGRIFFthe original op mentioned that. It’s called napalm.
Was gonna say that shit ain't going very far
"Where does the Bayonet go?"
Paraphrasing a General
I forgot his name but the dude was a certified badass.
Chesty Puller.
Meet the Pyro
Mmmmmh mmmphhmmm mmmmmmmmmmmphhhh!!!!
Hudda hudda huh !
"Are you talking about thay freak aren't you?!"
Tuh tuh tuh tuhtuth tuhtuth tata
"One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask..."
Those things are BRUTAL. they're dangerous on both ends!!!
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In Eugene Sledges’s book, he describes that not only does this burn you to death, but when it’s used on an enclosed area such as a bunker or a cave, all the oxygen is consumed by the flame so you’re both suffocating and burning to death
@tomr6955eb sledge was trained for a mortar squad. He fought on Pelielu and Okinawa. He probably either saw it first hand or talked to a surviving flamethrower marine
Fire needs oxygen to burn, humans need oxygen to live, inside an enclosed space their is limited oxygen, said fire will use the oxygen so humans inside can't use oxygen to live, that's how humans suffocate @tomr6955
@tomr6955 Eugene Sledge's dad was a doctor, so it's safe to say he was probably educated. Also, a lot of the bunkers they cleared with flamethrowers weren't filled with charred bodies. The soldiers suffocated while laying down on the ground.
Remember this, if the 🔥 fire don't get you the smoke will.
@tomr6955 Fire consumers oxygen, doesn't take a rocket scientist.
My step mothers grandfather served in WW2 and according to his stories he was one of the guys running up and clearing areas with a flamethrower when either a hose or a tank busted and he took all the fuel to the face. It damaged his eyes terribly eventually leading to his blindness. The man was a hell of a warrior and would even play the harmonica sitting on the couch for us with his eyes trained to a painting of his long past wife. Even without seeing the entire image he still knew what or who he was looking at
There are interviews with WW2 veterans and one was a flamethrower operator, he mentioned that you only have a handful 2-second bursts in those tanks, this guy probably emptied them.
Yeşilin çimenin ağacın mis gibi havanın suçu ne.
@@snnkck uh, nothing
@@Corn0nTheCobbhes just complaining that they fired it into the forest but the guy actually just shot the floor i believe
@@youtubeguy2k ah, I see. Thanks. Google translate made it sound like he was blaming the grass, trees and air for something.
Yep, we just watched a guy empty one. Source: OP's video
imagine showing this to a 1800's soldier?
Imagine showing this to anyone before 1400s. They'd think you are a god
@@karlohorcicka7388 this already existed in naval warfare. Or do you think the greeks throw their fire by hand?
Ever heard of Greek fire?
@@TheScienceofnature you guys dont seem to realize that a modern flamethrower is not the same as your greek fire. your comments were not smart at all.
But there were flame throwers in antiquity.
My grandfather on my dads side left Germany, when quote, his “neighbors and social peers gradually got more insane, with no change in how many were sick”. He made it to America w/ his young wife(my grandmother) and lived in Springfield, NJ in the house my father ect ect grew up in. Since he was a German immigrant, when he enlisted in the US Military... he wasent allowed to be deployed to Germany. So for World War II he was sent to Japan. Believe it or not, this is what he did “bunker clearing with flamethrower”. The navy battleships basically flattened the whole island and destroyed the coast line at first. So they basically sent in huge units to clear bunkers, dugouts, ect ect. There was about 5-6 men that always stuck with/coordinated with one flamethrower guy like a team. They all knew how to use it if needed and could coordinate with another flamethrower and his guys for larger/difficult bunkers, machine gun nest. It may sound very cool, but he said it was horrifying in retrospect.
Your grandpa beat the odds of the 35 minute lifespans mentioned by the other commenter. Congrats!!
🥩 de japones😅
в России многие люди сейчас ощущают то что чувствовал ваш дедушка в Германии перед отъездом.
в обществе слишком много жестокости.
мы так быстро скатились до ужасных мыслей и слов, которые говорят обычные люди.
ужас
You forgot the most important part of a flamethrower: Screaming like a madman while firing it.
OH MY GOD ITS A 1960 RICE COOKER
Since 1942
Dude 😂😂😂 took me a second
Nice
While in our forest we had GI sheesh kebabs!!
vintage
In ww2 and the Vietnam war, it used a Napalm and gasoline mixture, meaning it was very stiky, also it shot a good distance, a true flame thrower. nowadays, Napalm is illegal to buy and own
Покупка напалма? Я думал, что его может приготовить любой школьник🤔
@@Antonov-Ovseenko I mean, you could make, just be careful on how you use it, you might go to jail, I don't really know though,
I don't know where you live but it's not illegal in America.
"i fear no man but that thing its scared me" -big guy
One shudder to imagine what lie behind that mask...
I saw a demo of one of these a few years ago, I was sitting a considerable distance away, and I could not believe the intense heat that thing gave off even from that far away! Nasty weapon!!
What a crazy ass weapon...even crazier is the person that said "yep, now mass produce these for our troops"
Fun fact: if a flamethrower reached a enemy position, like a machinegun nest, he would soak the whole thing with fuel, 99% of the time the enemies just leave without offering resistance
So you me he just "shot" the fuel out the flame thrower, without igniting it before, on the enemies, and they had at least a chance to get out alive?! So he could use the flame thrower to burn them, or they would ignite themselves when they start shooting after they were soaked with fuel, so they just chose to run away?!
@@IronWarrior95 its both parts of the history, its a threat and a calm way to prevent them to fight back, all they can use at that point its their melee equipment since a little spark can burn them all
And most of the time they make them prisioners you know, Geneva suggestion
@@IronWarrior95 In a similar vein, flamethrower tanks would often fire off a few bursts from outside their effective range, announcing their presence. Most soldiers surrendered on the spot.
that is terrifying
And the funny thing is, this was considered the most humane way to kill enemies on the battlefield
@@ThyEpicFaceManyes burning someone alive was considered the most humane way by no one in history except you
@@ThyEpicFaceManIt had nothing to do with how humane it was, it was simply seen as the most effective tool to force japs out of cover.
We made flame throwers out of herbicide backpack sprayers and drip torch nozzles to burn slash piles when I worked as a forestry tech. Not quite as powerful as this thing but still pretty fun.
This guy is BAD ASS! The fact that HE HAS ONE OF THESE, then he dressed up for the part too….👍👍👍👍Your awesome brother!!!
"Now im on Saipan with this giant zippo strapped to my back and im roasting human beings..." - Private Harrigan
Windtalkers! I love that movie was my favorite war movie when I was kid.
“How do you know i am a chief???
Must of seen me showering with my war bonnet on”
- Private Ben yazi
@@lozmarshall7837 yes!! him and Whitehorse!
I met an old veteran who told me they would turn off the pilot light, soak the Japanese in the bunker in fuel, they stand around like wtf, then ignite it.
Hey, after everything they did to the Chinese, they had it coming. War is hell
Much scarier just watch the exits for runners and you get them all
Brutal
The fact that it was napalm they were throwing is just horrifying. Lots of cave defenders wouldn’t even die of the direct flames, they would have suffocated from the immense oxygen being sucked out of the closed space and the insane temperatures
Legendary move
Mfs In Antarctica When There's An Alien Imitation Among Their Crew
You know it’s serious when Mac wants the flamethrower
Believe me, I'm a Hawk not a Dove, but a flamethrower is a diabolical weapon.
If you couldn’t shoot straight, they gave you a flamethrower.
That has surprisingly more recoil than I expected
Its like a jet powered pressure washer
_Bowser has been quiet since this video dropped_
Okay, I stop.
imagine your are in the middle of antarctica and you have to face a shapeshifter alien, that disguise as your friends, and you don´t trust no one...
Everyday of mey lechie
Movie -- "The Thing"
Now get me outta this fucking chair!
😂
That happened to me once, I’m still shapeshifted
I want one so bad
All you need is a flamethrower a tank and another 750 guns and you officially moved up the patriotard rank
@@brandonneumann5294all you have to do is stay just like you are to remain full retard rank.
Completely legal in 48 states, So if ur not a Calitard or Maryland resident u can own one as it is a 'tool'.
@@TrumpFan-kj9hjlmfao you just told him 😂😂😂
@@TrumpFan-kj9hj
Thank you, fed boy!
Very cool!
man playin with my new dab rig outside like its a toy
😂😂
« Go play with the neighbor’s kid »
Neighbor’s kid :
I’ve got a buddy that bought one. It’s about 90% complete. He’s going to restore it. I think he paid about $13k for it.
Reminds me of Mr Don Graves a flamethrower operator who fought in the battle of lwo Jima in WWII. Someone should show him this
He said it shot 65-70 feet
He claimed it shot 70 feet
the M2 uses a road flare canister for ignition? did not know that.
Its waterproof as a result very useful.
“This is a Flammenwerfer, it werfs flammens”
That's so cool
Every year in Reading PA at the WWII Air Show they do a flamethrower demonstration and it’s incredible
pov: the spider you caught disappears
The clanking and scraping metal sounds in this video are soothing.
The sound of this is unbelievable
*FETCH ME THEIR SOULS*
Warp fire!!
*sick guitar riff*
*SCHIZO LAUGHTER INTENSIFIES*
"Come here puppy, got something for ya!"
POV it’s 1946 and some dude runs at you with this
1946? I think youshould pay more attention in history class, my friend.
@@malcomx1924 I’m sorry :(
Your german neighbor seeing this: 💀
Badass flamethrower!!!!!!
Remember kids don’t play with fire!
Where would one get that
where can I buy one ? I need it for...uhm...a science project :333
A Can of Fly Spray and cigarette Lighter😅
Check out the pulse fire. You can buy them on Palmetto arms for about 400. There's on with a quarter gallon tank that you can put on your AR and another that has backpack thing that allows 4 minutes of flames.
I got mine from the local mcdonalds near me.
I ordered it as a toy for my happy meal...
Too bad they're not selling the toy anymore as they deem it to be "danerous and hazardous to everyting"
Its total bs
Buy a 2.5 gallon refillable water fire extinguisher, a 6" piece of 1/4" steel tubing, and a propane trigger ignition torch. Shove tubing down rubber hose and weld torch to tube. Fill with gasoline/diesel mix. Pressurize with air compressor and fire away. Range 25 yards
@@brianwilson4861think there’s a few videos of people using scuba tanks and CO2 tanks from paintball guns to make em……along with a pressure washer gun to use as the torch😬
Anakin: YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER!!!!!
Obi Wan: Don't try it!!!! 😈🔥🔫
Where were you Childs?
Me when i see a spider dies but thousands of babys spiders
it was all spiders, needed to be felt with
Me when after being called "Gay" by the Tankies and Russians
Ты гей! Ты гей! Ты пидар! Я русский 🇷🇺 который тебе это послал.😊
Fun fact: In the Army, chemical soldiers used the flame thrower. Dragon soldiers was their nlckname.
It's better than the ones today
This guy is a bad ass!! 🔥🔥🔥
I know! I look good right?
I got to see one of these demonstrated once as a kid, maybe early teens. I was about 30 yards away, and (obviously) it wasn't pointed in my direction, and still, it was the most intense heat I've ever experienced in my life. Even hiding behind my dad to escape the heat, I physically couldn't bear it. Can NOT imagine being on either the giving or receiving end of this thing.
So cool 😍 flamethrowers are awesome
Ooooh that’s what those things are for!!!! I found 3 of those in my gramps garage after he passed away. Thought it was a back pack jet wash so binned them😢
Ooooooooooh my god.
"She looks 12, but she's actually 700..."
Me af:
Coming to this a little late, but while the movie is always show the flames were exploding and everything else - the reason you had all these people providing covering fire is because the flamethrower is brought up to take out typically fortified positions. So these are dug in, often concrete, pppositions with interlocking fields of fire, which combined with mines created what still are affectionately known as "kill zones."
So the individuals in the fortified position are watching for all those annoying people trying to throw explosives and other unpleasantness into their firing slot. They are routinely supplied with machine guns and lots and lots of ammunition. Flamethrowers are a nice way to deal with these positions because of the flaming liquid aspect. So instead of the hand grenade bouncing off the lip of the firing slit, there is clinging and dripping napalm getting partially on to the inside of it and obscuring their shooting. At which point the flamethrower operator corrects his aiming point slightly, and it's now going directly into the fortification.
Which means the guys in that fortification are going to be very very interested in shooting him. Of course without him they are going to be busily shooting the rest of the platoon. This is one of those cases I would much rather provide fire support for the flamethrower operator then to be him. Those soldiers were truly brave - also possible fire bugs, but sometimes you just need to enjoy your work. :)
Still such a iconic weapon that spark fear and hate when flamethrowers destroyed a soldiers image to cruelty. That m2 still works well!
metal slug soldiers when hit by that: *AHHHHHHWWWWWWGGGGG!!!!*
When phrase "hans bring ze flammenwerfer" understended litteraly. 😂
I don't know why but everytime I see an actual flamethrower in action, I immediately remember John Carpenter's The Thing.😮
Wielding a flamethrower is not as cool as one would imagine, you literally need to be within spitting distance of your enemy for your weapon to be useful. That’s terrifying
Up until the actual flamethrowing, the assembling part was giving me ASMR vibes.
"Hanz,grabz zhe Flamethrower"
Man the reenact is going to be crazy
Thats a master pice from ww2
Well damn. That’s all I needed to get in the mood to go level up my support class now in Hell Let Loose
I remembered the movie "The Thing".
That’s badass SemperFi
Beautiful
holly SHIT that's way more terrifying than in the movies
That's what my granddad carried in the Pacific Theater in WWII. ..
"Is there anything we can do about that heat?" - Rick Dalton
No, it's a flamethrower.
Me grandad usmc ,
was flame thrower operator on iwojima , he got blown up back filled with volcanic debris rock and ash..
Military told him there's nothing they can do. he lived till 1994
Good friend of mine i worked with for years at concord lumbers cabinet shop here in new Hampshire Ray Bolby i hope i spelled name right! anyway he was a marine who used a flame thrower and landed on Okinawa with first wave of marines . He was close to retirement i was about 18 he was teaching or trying to teach me to build cabinets . When i found he was a marine fought in world war two i of course would ask questions about his experience with utmost respect ....mostly. he told me some stories that were to my young naive dumb ass i thought were embellishments...like he said sometimes after blasting out bunkers or pill boxes they would look inside and find the enemy dead without burns said they suffocated because the air had been sucked up from the flame theowers blast. Another time after reading a book he lent me written by i think William manchester titled "good bye darkness" which i recommend... I stupidly asked him about collecting gold teeth . I realized i had gone to far when i saw his jaw muscles in his cheek tense up and that strange look like his eyes would go out of focus he would mumble something and walk away after sending me to the board field looking for the elusive birds eye maple boards for a customers cabinets. I always thought it was punishment but it was actually him wanting me to think about things . Next morning i was clocked in talking with old eddie degrenier hope i spelled it right.... He was another vet who was in the air force during world war two Raymond came in walked by us and casually tossed a dungaree bag on the work table i was reading some blueprints on looking at it i looked at eddie questioningly he got a hard look in his eyes and walked away i guess him and ray had spoken about my questions day before .i opened it up and yeah there was a bunch of human teeth in there with gold fillings. I started being embarrassed but then i got really emotional almost crying i realised his life at my age was not about partying smoking grass drinking and chasing girls around with my mustang he was fighting for his life and doing things to other young men that today seem horrific but to them it was not. I never doubted those guys again who worked for that company all their lives raised families after basically saving the damned world ....i never got a chance to thank raymond and the other guys for what they did and for putting up with me actually i grew up without a dad at home and they in many ways taught me how to be a man not a punk they have all passed away and where ever they are now... after all those years ago... im in my sixties....I want to say thank you to ray and Eddie and Gerry foster and all the good people that serve and have served for your sacrifices so people like me could have a live of safety...... Thank you and ray eddie and Gerry rest in peace you dont need me to say it but i do appreciate the time i had working with you guys i wish i could have realized it more back then...💪
Fun fact, in WW2 US told that from flamethrower was a weapon of mercy, like you die fking fast, but soon they know that soldier die in agony also soldiers who hide in bunkers die from toxic also in agony
That's awesome bro
Cleverly analyzed my friend. Always wondered how those actually worked. I presume immense heat generated, hence the need for fire retardant (military) outer wear ?