Picture No | 10215292 |
Date | August 21st 1915 |
Description | German Flammenwerfer in action. |
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Illustration showing a German soldier using a 'Flammenwerfer', used to take British trenches at Hooge in August 1915. The ILN describes this as a 'diabolical instrument'; the flame-thrower had a range of thirty yards and was used to devastating effect.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. August 21st 1915. P.243. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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