BOOKS - MILITARY HISTORY - US Flamethrower Tanks of World War II
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US Flamethrower Tanks of World War II
Author: Steven J Zaloga
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: 3,8 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: 3,8 MB
Language: ENG
The US Army and Marine Corps experimented with a wide range of flame-thrower tanks through World War II in both the European and Pacific theaters. Although the US Army deployment of flame-thrower tanks in the ETO was problematic at best, flamethrowers were much more widely used in the Pacific theater and became ubiquitous by 1945, including an entire Army flamethrower tank battalion on Okinawa in 1945, the largest single use of flamethrower tanks in World War II. This will cover the initial attempts at the use of auxiliary flamethrowers by both the US Army and Marine Corps in 1943, the standardized adoption of the Satan flamethrower tank by the Marines in 1944,