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Chapter XVI, Chemicals in Combat 20 ETOUSA, Trig Memo No. 33, 6 Oct 43, sub: Portable Flame Thrower, sec. II, reprinted as app. 19 in McKinney, Portable Flame Thrower Opns. 21 ETOUSA, Tng Memo No. 10, 5 Apr 44, sub: Portable Flame Thrower, sec. I, reprinted as app. 20 McKinney, Portable Flame Thrower Opns. 22 FUSA Rpt of Opns, 20 Oct 43-1 Aug 44, bk. VII, p. 190. 23 (1) Ltr, CmlO SOS ETO to CmlO FUSAG, 5 Jun 44, sub: Flame Throwers. 12th Army Group Rcds, 470.71-Apparatus. (2) The theater made this recommendation after the portable flame thrower became an item of Class IV issue. WD Cir No. 204, 23 May 44. Other support bases of issue were: airborne division, 15; armored division, 18; Ranger battalion, 6; and engineer combat battalion, 24. 24 Ltr, CG 12th Army Group to CG COMZ ETOUSA, 16 Aug 44, sub: Request for Flame Throwers. 12th Army Group Reds, 470.71-Apparatus. 25 (1) McKinney, Portable Flame Thrower Opns, pp. 192-93. (2) Interv, Hist Off with Col W. H. Greene, 12 Jul 48. During World War II Colonel Greene served successively as chemical officer of the 26th Division and the XX Corps. 26 (1) McKinney, Portable Flame Thrower Opns, pp. 195-96. (2) FUSA Rpt of Opns, 20 Oct 43-2 Aug 44, bk. VII, p. 197. (3) Informal comments of CWSO 21 Jun 44. CWS 317.4, Portable Flame Thrower. 27 Observer's Rpt 1, Flame Thrower E4-5, Incl to Ltr, CmlO 12th Army Group to Comdt Cml Warfare School, 14 Nov 44, sub: Flame Thrower Rpts. This report consists of a series of replies by First Army units to a questionnaire on flame thrower operations submitted by Colonel St. John, Chemical Adviser, G-3, SHAEF. |