Word: flamingly
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...George Rodger of LIFE and I were moving closer toward the harbor when the whole area lighted to a white blinding intensity," Lang cabled. "Then a great weight hit me and I found myself flat on the pavement. I saw a huge rolling mass of flame a thousand feet in the air: a tanker had blown up 300 yards from us. Tied up just before us was another tanker; it could blow up any moment. 'Let's get out of here!' I shouted, and we climbed to the top of a nearby building and looked over...
...popped out of the tunnel and we fired. The first shell exploded just inside the cab where the driver was. Several of our shells hit the posts which carry the electric line. It was a 5,000-volt system. For about a mile there was a solid sheet of flame where the wires swung against the ground. The bushes and stuff were dry. They caught fire, and made a most beautiful blaze...
According to one description, the launchers are arranged like a flat bank of ten organ pipes at the bow of a small naval landing craft. The crew takes shelter in the bottom of the craft to avoid the backlash of flame from the rockets. The firing is directed from a steel, asbestos-lined turret in the stern. Navy officers conceded that the rockets had proved of value, but discouraged over-sensational treatment of the weapon, pointing out that it could only supplement the heavy-artillery barrage before a landing...
...flame-throwing infantryman presses a push-button switch to get the spark that ignites hydrogen near the nozzle. This acts as a pilot light, ignites the fuel oil emerging under pressure from nitrogen. Back of him are three tanks: a small one for gas pressure, a pair of larger ones for fuel...
...flamethrower is more than psychologically effective. Its heat is flesh-withering, lung-bursting. Its flame sucks up oxygen from confined space (such as an apertured pillbox), leaves those inside gasping or collapsed. Against a dug-in enemy whose field of fire is blocked by good cover, it is an awesome and handy weapon to have around...