Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...furnace of these sometimes fumbled campaigns the Navy had forged a powerful weapon. To its fleet had been added strange, unheard-of craft which opened their mouths like Jonah's whale to spew trucks, howitzers, Marines, Seabees, infantrymen, seagoing tanks, onto beaches. To naval warfare had been added a whole new book of "standard procedures" covering the hazardous, complicated job of ship-to-shore ferrying. The "beach master" who stood on shore directing the weird traffic assumed as much importance as the master of a ship...
Additional news did not come from the U.S. but from England. Flight, a trade magazine unbound by strict U.S. censorship, had given British readers some details of the secret weapon the U.S. is readying for battle...
Resembling an outsized insecticide spray gun, the Army's weapon can project a 60-yard-long, rodlike flame or a 25-yard-long, billowing blaze to cover a wider area...
...single-purpose weapon, designed to rout troops from trenches, pillboxes, dugouts, similar fortifications, the flamethrower's use is peculiarly fitted to Pacific theaters of operation, where dense foliage permits its use at short range...
...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...