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February 1945. Iwo Jima. Eight miles of volcanic hell hiding 21,000 Japanese soldiers in 11 miles of reinforced underground tunnels. Naval bombardment couldn't touch them. Artillery bounced off. Infantry flamethrowers could barely reach 40 yards—and their operators lived an average of 4 minutes in combat.
Then eight modified Sherman tanks rolled onto the black sand beaches, disguised to look like ordinary tanks. But hidden inside that 75mm gun barrel was something the Japanese had never encountered: a weapon that could shoot liquid fire 150 yards deep into caves, consuming oxygen and burning at 2,100°F.
This is the untold story of how Navy Seabees in a secret Hawaiian workshop built the weapon that changed the Pacific War—and why the Japanese feared it more than any other American technology.
🔥 WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER:

The Harvard chemistry professor who invented napalm in a basement laboratory on Valentine's Day 1942
Why portable flamethrowers were death sentences for their operators
How 25 Navy Seabees redesigned the flamethrower from scratch against Army specifications
The engineering challenge of mounting 300 gallons of pressurized napalm in a tank
Staff Sergeant Richard Chambers' first combat mission with the weapon Japanese defenders called "hellfire"
Why Marine commanders refused to advance without flame tank support
The brutal mathematics: 360,000 gallons of napalm used in 36 days
What Japanese war diaries revealed about the weapon they feared most

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📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING:

U.S. Marine Corps After-Action Reports, Iwo Jima 1945
Naval Construction Battalion Historical Records
Harvard University Archives - Louis Fieser Papers
Japanese Defense Documents (Translated)
National WWII Museum Archives


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This video contains historical discussion of combat operations and flamethrower weapons used in WWII. All content is educational and historically accurate.

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