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September 1944. Peleliu Island. A four-day mission turned into a two-month slaughterhouse. The Japanese were dug into limestone caves so deep that naval shells barely scratched them. For the Marines on the ground, every meter was paid for in blood.

Corporal Daniel Reeves, a hunter from Montana, watched his brothers die trying to get close enough to use flamethrowers. The range was too short. The risk was too high. Command had no solution for the "Bloody Nose" ridge, where the survival rate for a frontal assault was near zero.

What happened next was a feat of battlefield desperation.

Using scrounged parts from a dead flamethrower and a crashed Japanese vehicle, Reeves engineered a weapon that shouldn't have existed. He turned the standard M1 Garand into a "Dragon Rifle"—a weapon that launched napalm-filled projectiles 150 yards into the heart of enemy bunkers. It was unauthorized, unregulated, and absolutely lethal.

In a single morning, three bunkers that had held off an entire division were incinerated. Zero Marine casualties. The Japanese called it a nightmare—rifles that breathed fire from the shadows.

This is the untold story of the weapon the Army never officially recognized, born from the mud of Palau and the refusal of one corporal to accept the impossible. Discover how a field-modified rifle became the difference between a massacre and a victory.

Watch till the end—you won't believe the impact this "illegal" invention had on the Pacific war.