Word: flamingly
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...less than a hundred yards to go when the Crocks started shooting their flame across the canal. It seared the gloom with a great orange-red gash. We broke into a trot...
...left, the Crocks were still shooting their liquid death across the canal in spurts that slid over the water, then arched high into the air, hitting the bank and curling along and over it toward the Jerries' trenches. Everything it touched withered, then burst into flame...
...None of the Germans in the trenches taken by our platoon put up any real fight-they were too cowed by the flamethrowers, and evidently went deep into their dugouts when the flame came licking over the bank. We took 60 prisoners in three minutes, all paratroopers, and all thoroughly frightened except one. He surrendered easily enough, but kept complaining bitterly in broken English: "Flames-it is not fair...
Spread of the Fire. A thousand yards along the canal, flame suddenly leaped from one bank to the other, which meant that flamethrowers were at work spearheading the assault for another battalion. Jerry promptly switched his shelling from us to the new attack. We took the opportunity to expand our bridgehead and exploit the ground ahead...
Before they stopped, China's woes had multiplied. The enemy had taken the base at Tushan, but before he did, more of China's precious supplies went up in smoke and flame. Ahead of the Jap spearhead, U.S. engineers set the torch to the base's munitions dumps. Thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition and fighting equipment of all kinds, stored up with infinite pain from the trickle of supply across the Hump from India, were blasted to destruction in a 48-hour holocaust...