Modern Dragon
Pacific--Spouting flame like some terrible dragon, the Army's new flame throwing tank spews a solid stream of devastating fire in a night demonstration at a Pacific base. Developed in Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson's Pacific Ocean Areas command, the new weapon uses an oil-like substance to blanket Japanese positions with flaming death.
- Date
- 1945-01-24
- Photographer / author
- US Army Signal Corps
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- document
- Original size
- 5,882 × 4,478 pixels
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