Along the coast of New Britain, U.S. Marines have been proving that old ways can still be effective ways. Fire is one of the handiest of all weapons for getting the Jap out of his carefully revetted bunkers or sealing him in forever. The fire is thrown from the Army's improved portable flamethrower, which is superior to anything the Jap is known to have, more easily maintained, simpler, unaffected by tropic damp.
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...
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