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effectiveness of fire as a defensive weapon. As the First World War started he went back to active duty . By the second year of the war he was commanding a flamethrower pioneer battalion. Thanks to his command and use a whole regiment was installed. Although
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designed and patented the first modern design of a flamethrower. In the same year the
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began his own development of the flamethrower. He was an officer in the German pioneer battalion in the reserves, as well as a firefighter in the civilian world. As his curiosity with the use of kerosene as a weapon of war, he started to blend the pumping power of a hose for fire fighting, with the
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M.16 was a two-man operated system, with one man wearing a back pack full of fuel, and the other man holding the nozzle to aim towards the desire target. As the fuel hit the open fire in front of the nozzle, spraying flames about 20-30 yards with a continues spray for 20–40 seconds. Although very
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as a means to break the dead lock facing the western front. During the battle of Verdun in 1916 where German pioneers and shock troopers used it to deadly effect.
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for army use. Finally in 1911 the German army accepted his designs into service. About the same time another man named
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