Good evening and the very best to you and yours.
Semper Fi
Tommie
Tommie,somewhere I have a newsreel on video of the recapture of Guam, I need to see if I can dig it up.
I don't know how you feel about watching combat cameramen films from that era, but films like "To the Shores of Iwo Jima" have lot of flamethrower clips in 16mm technicolor, both the backpack type and the ones mounted on the M-4 Sherman tank.
There is another clip of a Japanese soldier, completely engulfed in flames, running out in front of the cameraman and falling to the ground.
I don't know where it comes from, and I've only seen it a couple of times, but it's quite shocking when one sees it, even in an documentary film.
Reminds one of what a fearfully deadly and effective weapon the flamethrower was..and it took a lot of guts to carry one of those around too.