{"id":55838,"date":"2020-07-08T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=55838"},"modified":"2020-07-07T08:03:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:03:26","slug":"us-m2-m2a1-flamethrower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/07\/08\/us-m2-m2a1-flamethrower\/","title":{"rendered":"US M2\/M2A1 Flamethrower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aPQYK5ZMbWY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 12 May 2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a dismal first attempt at designing a flamethrower (the M1) in 1941, the US Chemical Corps along with several universities and industrial partners put in a lot of research to develop a more usable and effective flamethrower. The result was the M2, which went into production in early 1944. It would prove to be an exceptionally effective weapon in the island-hopping campaign towards the end of the war.<\/p>\n<p>The M2 was arguably the best flamethrower fielded by any military during the war, with a number of excellent design features. These included:<\/p>\n<p>* A constant-pressure regulator to ensure that the range stayed the same from the first to the last shot of a tank of fuel<br \/>\n* An on\/off main valve easily accessible to the operator<br \/>\n* A supremely waterproof and reliable pyrotechnic cartridge ignition system<br \/>\n* An auto-shutoff valve which sealed at the nozzle, preventing dribble (and cutting off fuel flow should the operator lose control of the weapon)<\/p>\n<p>The M2 would see service into the Vietnam War even as its successor the M9 was being issued. It was a truly outstanding design, and remains viable to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Charlie Hobson for showing us the unit and teaching me to fire it, and also thanks to Adaptive Firearms for letting us use their range facilities!<\/p>\n<p>You can find Charlie Hobson&#8217;s book, <em>US Portable Flamethrowers<\/em> here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1SP9yc5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/amzn.to\/1SP9yc5<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_2020-07-08-US-M2-M2A1-Flamethrower.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_2020-07-08-US-M2-M2A1-Flamethrower-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-58522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_2020-07-08-US-M2-M2A1-Flamethrower-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_2020-07-08-US-M2-M2A1-Flamethrower-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_2020-07-08-US-M2-M2A1-Flamethrower-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_2020-07-08-US-M2-M2A1-Flamethrower-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot_2020-07-08-US-M2-M2A1-Flamethrower.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published 12 May 2016 http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons After a dismal first attempt at designing a flamethrower (the M1) in 1941, the US Chemical Corps along with several universities and industrial partners put in a lot of research to develop a more usable and effective flamethrower. The result was the M2, which went into production in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,13,663,230],"tags":[1366,1095,281,585],"class_list":["post-55838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-fortification","tag-koreanwar","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ewC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58523,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55838\/revisions\/58523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}