Rabu, 18 April 2018

Arms and Men: Flammenwerfer!

“The Prince of Hades” introduced a terrifying new weapon to World War I battlefields. The small groups of gray-clad soldiers dis- mounted from wagons on February 26, 1915, and trudged under cover of darkness across the shell-cratered battlefield, just behind the front at Malancourt, near Verdun, France. They lugged unfamiliar equipment: heavy iron tanks, apparatus, …

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