During World War II, Germany experimented with armored flamethrower vehicles in a desperate bid to dominate the battlefield.

Here’s What You Need to Know: So gruesome were the flamethrower’s effects that troops on both sides of twentieth-century conflicts treated any flame operators as dishonorable and below contempt.

Following the creation of the Petroleum Warfare Department in 1940 to experiment with petroleum oil as a tool for war, the British began designing highly innovative ways to unleash psychological ...