A flamethrower is a ranged incendiary device designed to project a controllable jet of fire.
Marine firing a flamethrower during the Vietnam War United States Marines demonstrating flamethrower usage (2012). Advertisements, circulars, and prescriptive literature like the one poster below showed the different places that paper cups should be used to “guard against wartime epidemics.” Crowded defense areas brought public health concerns to the forefront, but paper cups were also seen as valuable through their ability to conserve manpower. A Type 93 flamethrower used by the Imperial Japanese Army, drawing made for the US Military Intelligence Service A U.S. During World War I the production of paper cups was encouraged to increase wartime public health and when World War II began the manufacture of paper cups and containers exploded in an effort to meet the needs of war plants, Navy bases, ships, Army posts, and hospitals. Paper cups were called implements of war by paper cup manufacturers and government officials alike. (Hugh Moore Dixie Cup Company Collection, Special Collections and College Archives, Skillman Library, Lafayette College.)įour decades after their introduction to the public as part of the Progressive public health efforts, print media presented paper cups as integral to fighting the Second World War. Cover from Paper Cups – Essential in War, 1942.
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