The U.S. M2 flamethrower weighed about 43 pound empty. When fully charged the solider was carrying about 68 pounds of flammable fuel on his back into the battlefield with people desperately trying to shoot him down. If he was lucky a bullet hit him in the chest. If not, and it hit one of the twin fuel tanks, he could die an ugly, painful death.
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