W&T: Flamethrower

Flamethrower

Hello I will be talking about the flame-thrower and its uses in the world war and how much of a difference the Flame-thrower made in the war. The flame-thrower shoots fire out of its barrel and it was used to put a man on fire there is two types of the flame-thrower during the war. Richard Fielder developed both small and large flamethrowers in the early 1900s. one flamethrower is for portable uses carried by one man and can reach far as 18 metres from where it was shot from. The bigger flamethrower can’t be used by one person and a waste of fuel and can be shot twice the distance the first use of the flamethrower is on July 30 1914 3:05 AM from the Germans to the British in the Hooge in Flanders. They had 6 people operating 3 flamethrowers with 2 each to a flamethrower. Later on the British developed a portable 1 man flamethrower superior to the German version of the flamethrower in 1917 the flamethrower had a benefit of self-lighting and later on it had made it to the tank so the tank would have a flame thrower in to blow flames at enemies and the flamethrower is still being used to this day. So the flamethrower has been upgraded quite a bit through-out the years as early as 5^th century B.C  and now it’s 2017 so it has been used for 2517 years the flame-thrower has been used.