M2 Flamethrower - In The Movies

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  • @starzkream
    @starzkream Рік тому +162

    Fun fact, that clip you show from Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (where DiCaprio complains about the flamethrower's heat) was actually his real response to using it, not acting, but Tarantino left it in the movie anyway.

    • @SandorSoptei
      @SandorSoptei 9 місяців тому +6

      LOL it did seem authentic. but then again leo is an amazing actor. I was laughing my ass off at that scene

    • @Kaiser-in2od
      @Kaiser-in2od День тому

      When I was a kid, I went to the Knob Creek shoot (Kentucky machine gun shoot). And they had a dude there who rented a flamethrower to use @ the night shoot.
      My parents had good connections with some people there, and we got to sit on top of a roof about 100 yards back from the firing line for the night shoot (considered the best seats at the range for that event), and when the dude started to use the flamethrower it felt like we were sitting right next to a raging bonfire, we were behind him also....
      Could only imagine how hot it was close up, or inside a house or something...
      After that we watched 100+ machine guns fire red and green tracers at drums of gas with dynamite strapped to them.

  • @alixon5009
    @alixon5009 Рік тому +143

    7:55 I like that you brought this point out about mental health. Just wanted to bring this up, flamethrowers and PTSD are a major plot point in LA Noire.

    • @manletchief
      @manletchief Рік тому +18

      "You said the house would be empty! HOW CAN I FIND PEACE?!?!"

    • @misterbig9025
      @misterbig9025 Рік тому +5

      No ptsd for me. I enjoy

    • @gabutman6144
      @gabutman6144 11 місяців тому +8

      @@misterbig9025 edgy

    • @veteranpg3d156
      @veteranpg3d156 5 місяців тому

      @@misterbig9025 Even the biggest Masochists hate it, so I doubt that

  • @patriotenfield3276
    @patriotenfield3276 Рік тому +85

    The People's Liberation army Ground force is the only force that actively uses flamethrower as forward assault weapon similar to US army and marines doctrine in WW2. The name is Type 74 model flamethrower which is a copy of LPO 50 soviet flamethrower.

  • @manletchief
    @manletchief Рік тому +221

    I'm not sure if this was brought up and I missed it, but another thing I've heard about flamethrowers back then during WW2 was that they used to claim that flamethrowers were humane weapons that killed fast and almost painlessly as compared to explosives and bullets, and could be used for mercy killing. After some time, that was obviously proven false and we now know flamethrowers are horrible weapons if used against people.

    • @ThePhysicalReaction
      @ThePhysicalReaction Рік тому +28

      lol at thinking being burned alive would be painless

    • @rgoldberg5294
      @rgoldberg5294 11 місяців тому +16

      My dad commanded a platoon of 5 flamethrower tanks (713th TBN) during the Battle of Okinawa. He described some instances in which it was anything but humane.

    • @wolftamer5463
      @wolftamer5463 9 місяців тому +9

      @@ThePhysicalReactionWell, they didn’t always burn. Sometimes the flames just burned off the oxygen and the troops hiding in enclosed spaces like a bunker or tunnel just suffocated. Similar things happened in the Allied firebombing campaign like at Dresden, there would be entire cellars full of seemingly untouched bodies who had never been singed but instead suffocated.

    • @veteranpg3d156
      @veteranpg3d156 5 місяців тому +2

      @@ThePhysicalReaction Times were different, they probably thought that the Nerves would be burned away instantly

  • @polaris30000
    @polaris30000 10 місяців тому +26

    The thing that the movies definitely don't get right is the sound. It's not really a roar, but more like a woosh as the air in front of you gets displaced and the hiss of the gas pushing the napalm out. They're actually pretty eerily quiet.

  • @john.darksoul
    @john.darksoul Рік тому +58

    In Call of Duty: World at War you can see flamethrowers used by Germans against the player hiding in a building, as well as by US marines when clearing bunkers. You also can pick up an M2 flamethrower from a soldier who was killed when trying to reach a bunker, and use it to clear that bunker yourself. While it can be used as a regular weapon (it has infinite ammo) in several missions, these missions involve clearing fortifications, which makes it's presence somewhat justified and appropriate.

    • @jehoiakimelidoronila5450
      @jehoiakimelidoronila5450 Рік тому +2

      Played that game, and let me tell you, what you said is true, especially in mission blowtorch and corkscrew

    • @CharlieBarkinTheDog
      @CharlieBarkinTheDog Рік тому +3

      ​@@jehoiakimelidoronila5450dont forget the mission he is writing about, "Burn em out"

    • @code066funkinbird3
      @code066funkinbird3 4 місяці тому

      Yeah agree

  • @patriotenfield3276
    @patriotenfield3276 Рік тому +57

    My Man Johnny is really battling hard against youtube's absurd copyright dictates.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +17

      I'll never give in.

    • @patriotenfield3276
      @patriotenfield3276 Рік тому +4

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq So will us. we are all in this shit together.

    • @Gojiro7
      @Gojiro7 Рік тому +3

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq so how many times has this video in particular been reuploaded? most would give up after the second so I'm curious how determined you are :)

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +8

      @@Gojiro7 the 2nd. I don't mind doing it. I just don't like aggrevating my subscribers.

    • @kellychuang8373
      @kellychuang8373 Рік тому

      Yeah it's really tough all over and with those Hollywood strike around it can only get worse also I'm sure he's no relation to a killer of that same name. Along with some topics for a video you can look into like the DSHK machine gun, RPG-7, Mi-24 Hind, B-52 bomber, Stinger missiles and maybe even do a video on the A-1 Cobra Gunship to name a few. Heck maybe you can find some part on the TU-95 while your at it or the Chinook helicopter.

  • @waverly2468
    @waverly2468 Рік тому +17

    "World War 1 The Complete Story" is on youtube. A 1965 CBS series narrated by Robert Ryan with great music by Morton Gould. Highly recommended. In his monotone voice, Ryan says WW1 was the war with no unbreakable rules. He mentions the first use of poison gas and flame throwers by the Germans.

  • @Snuffy03
    @Snuffy03 8 місяців тому +3

    Johnny, you always enlighten me without all the boring, extraneous build up common with most UA-cam presenters. Thanks.

  • @pogfrog4221
    @pogfrog4221 Рік тому +27

    Johnny, just want to say you are my favorite history youtuber, whenever im unsure of what to watch I always come back to your channel, because I KNOW whichever video i pick will be top-tier and guaranteed to be interesting. Keep it up!

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +2

      Hey, that's really kind. I appreciate that. Should have something new out for tomorrow 🙏

    • @michaelthompson3284
      @michaelthompson3284 Рік тому +1

      Oh Johnny and Mark Felton you really can't go wrong

  • @MrTennc
    @MrTennc Рік тому +6

    I saw a movie (sorry cannot remember its name) where a soldier wanted to try a flame thrower but did not realize how the flow of liquid would make the nozzle strongly rise. The result was the nozzle pointing straight up and the flame descending onto the soldier.

  • @GhostManBrandonDDpre
    @GhostManBrandonDDpre 9 місяців тому +6

    “The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
    ― George Carlin

  • @patriotenfield3276
    @patriotenfield3276 Рік тому +25

    Some other flamethrowers of the contemporary era
    1) Einstossflammenwerfer 46 Germany
    2) Flamethrower, Portable, No 2 UK
    3)Schilt Flamethrower France
    4) Flammenwerfer M.16. Germany
    5)Flammenwerfer 35 Germany

    6)Flammenwerfer 41 Germany
    7)Handflammpatrone West Germany
    8)Harvey Flamethrower United Kingdom
    9)Hay flamethrower United Kingdom
    10)Home Guard Flamethrower United Kingdom
    11)Kleinflammenwerfer Germany
    12)K pattern flamethrower Poland T
    13)Lanciafiamme Modello 35 Italy
    14) LPO-50 Soviet Union
    15) M1A1 Flamethrower United States
    16) M2 flamethrower United States
    17) M9 flamethrower United States
    18)Marsden flamethrower United Kingdom
    19)Morriss portable flamethrower United Kingdom
    20)ROKS flamethrowers Soviet Union
    The Finnish designation for captured ROKS-2 units was m/41-r.
    21)Type 93 and 100 flamethrowers Japan
    22)Wechselapparat Germany

  • @JurzGarz
    @JurzGarz Рік тому +40

    It’s a common misconception that flamethrower use is a “war crime”. While certainly a horrific weapon, international treaties only ban the use of incendiaries in civilian-populated areas.

    • @walli6388
      @walli6388 11 місяців тому +2

      You still got shot by the enemy if captured.

    • @FirstLast-qf1df
      @FirstLast-qf1df 2 місяці тому

      They're not allowed as an anti-personnel weapon. They can be used to clear out forests, but you can't use it to set someone on fire.

  • @ReggieMarshale
    @ReggieMarshale Рік тому +27

    “You are afraid
    Amber lash of searing flame
    Lungs filled with acrid smoke
    You ought to be afraid. You’re made out of meat”
    -Ahoy

    • @then00brathalos
      @then00brathalos Рік тому +7

      "Where bullets fail, fire prevails. While many of the sci fi horrors are bulletproof, fire.... fire consumes all"

  • @Nickerer
    @Nickerer Рік тому +6

    The churchills that had flamethrowers also had a “trolly” fuel tank for it, and apparently it had an exploding latch that the driver could set off upon the first sign of fire, separating the two.

  • @zackhawn5944
    @zackhawn5944 Рік тому +27

    Re-uploading demonetized videos?

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +51

      Yah I usually have maybe 4 copyright issues a month. Sorry it's kind of a pain for everyone.

    • @polostone8876
      @polostone8876 Рік тому +1

      it's mostly a pain for you tho, so ty I suppose :p @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq

    • @patriotenfield3276
      @patriotenfield3276 Рік тому +1

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq 4 copyright issues? UA-cam definitely will ban ur channel someday the way you are getting copyright. not acceptable of them damn rules to make you and us suffer like that . >:-(

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +4

      We will see. No strikes just copyright issues. I guess that's why I made a second channel. They could destroy me one day.

  • @Logotic
    @Logotic Рік тому +5

    At the end of the day, "Hell Is For Heroes" remains the canonical flamethrower movie.

  • @HamanKarn567
    @HamanKarn567 Рік тому +12

    There was a really good show set during Vietnam War called Tour of Duty where in one episode it was featured a lot. It has the actor who played the animated Batman Kevin Conroy in it. He passed away but it was his last episode in that show.

  • @sven416
    @sven416 Рік тому +8

    I could swear i saw this video a couple of weeks ago, but it says it was only uploaded a couple of hours ago 🤔

    • @davemccage7918
      @davemccage7918 Рік тому

      I thought the same thing, but this is the “New and Improved” version. I like this one better!

  • @panther7584
    @panther7584 Місяць тому +1

    Hello Johnny! Lately I'm seeing rise in media of improperly depicting flamethrowers in games and movies, in real life they shoot like jet and far, but in games and movies they shoot too wide and short. Kinda grinds my gears and I had people telling me flamethrowers is too powerful and I was like: "Yeah, and?!" It's the misconception that also includes shotguns only good for point blank and they send people flying like yeah no lol

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Місяць тому

      Too many people have learned about flamethrowers from Starcraft, lol

  • @dantetre
    @dantetre Рік тому +7

    In USA you can own a flamethrower, except if you are veteran.

  • @jacekszkutnik6294
    @jacekszkutnik6294 Рік тому +3

    Flamethrower is also used in The Pianist.

  • @wobotnik
    @wobotnik 5 місяців тому +1

    Lindybeige did a great rant about the Churchill Crocodile - he claims it's one of the best weapons of WW2. Worth a look.

  • @Imnotyourdoormat
    @Imnotyourdoormat Місяць тому +2

    *my ex-wife had morning breath like a ..... **_"Flame-Thrower."_*

  • @andyzehner3347
    @andyzehner3347 2 місяці тому +1

    Who else noticed the visual easter egg at 5:00?

  • @jalapenoandbanana
    @jalapenoandbanana 2 місяці тому

    This is one of my favorite flamethrowers 🔥

  • @davidcarr7436
    @davidcarr7436 9 місяців тому +1

    Besides the Crocodile flame throwing Churchill tank, the Commonwealth forces also used Universal carriers fitted with flame throwers and called them Wasps.
    Probably because they had a nasty sting.

  • @Gojiro7
    @Gojiro7 2 місяці тому

    One thing not really covered here, is most flame throwers don't have a constantly burning blowtorch at the end like they do on TV (at least not past the Korean war) instead they had limited use road flare that burned for about 30 seconds and had to be changed out when all used up, making the Flamethrower very limited use in combat

  • @ultrajd
    @ultrajd 3 місяці тому

    Fun yet slightly disturbing fact. Believe it or not in the United States it is completely legal to own a flamethrower.
    In fact, if you know where to look, there are actually people out there who make their business repairing deactivated military style flamethrowers. This usually evolves around things like plugging holes that have been poked into the various tanks and so on and so forth. Sometimes what is also done is one or both of the fuel tanks will be filled with , expanding insulation foam at the same time.
    But you can actually still buy these kinds of things. And I’m not referring to the “it’s not a flamethrower“ thing from Elon Musk, which is basically just an oversized barbecue lighter.
    Not only can you purchase old military type flamethrowers and not have to go through all the various hoops that you do for firearms. But you can even buy more up-to-date versions for relatively inexpensive prices.
    The reason for this is because due to a rather unique little loophole flamethrowers are seen more as agricultural devices used for things like weed abatement, and such. Not only that, but there’s also the fact that napalm is not something that the average civilian can get a hold of. However, and I probably shouldn’t even say this, but if you know what you’re doing, you can actually make the stuff. No I am not kidding.
    Second fun fact. During the footage from the movie holes of Montezuma, where we see the one Marine Corps member basically telling the flamethrower tank to open up and then we actually see the footage of the jet of fire being shown. That footage of the Jetta flame is actual combat footage from. I believe it was the battle of Okinawa.

  • @will_bill6663
    @will_bill6663 Рік тому +3

    i swear i watched this video before. Is this a repost?

  • @2packrm781
    @2packrm781 11 місяців тому

    Hey, Johnny, I have a special request to send you. You forgot that Flamethrowers were in the movie Aliens (1986) & the video game Duke Nuken: Time to Kill (on PS1) (...& the PS1 is a stretch, but I wanted to bring it to your attention).
    &, thank you for your upload of this device😎👍👍

  • @mrthomas7511
    @mrthomas7511 10 місяців тому

    I've always heard that flame thrower people had high casualty rates. Being they were huge targets by their enemies. I really didn't know that they exploded into a massive fire ball.

  • @smiley148784
    @smiley148784 Рік тому +2

    Just as good the second time around.

  • @mobert777
    @mobert777 7 місяців тому +1

    great video

  • @Courierman6
    @Courierman6 Рік тому +4

    Would like to see g 98 in the movies

  • @stevencolor3389
    @stevencolor3389 Рік тому +2

    These things are evil in enlisted, almost certain death if hit and unless you are at a 90+degree angle from where they are shooting, the flame makes it impossible to see the shooter to stop them.

  • @HandyMan657
    @HandyMan657 Рік тому

    Hot topic man. Thanks Johnny

  • @jacobhaussmann90
    @jacobhaussmann90 4 місяці тому

    The Flamethrower in Hell let loose needs a buff

  • @DeathbyDawn141
    @DeathbyDawn141 Рік тому +1

    Isn't this a re-upload.. I could had sworn I seen you make this exact video before, like a month or so ago.

  • @farrazaulia2917
    @farrazaulia2917 Рік тому +1

    cool video man

  • @Chiller11
    @Chiller11 Рік тому +1

    I wouldn’t have wanted to be issued a flamethrower. You have to assault difficult positions and you have to get close up to do it.

  • @razorsharpview9090
    @razorsharpview9090 6 місяців тому

    You should have mention also that Japan has been using Flame Thrower during world war II, esp. during their attack on the Philippines. In battle of bataan and corregidor.

  • @turtlelordowo2694
    @turtlelordowo2694 Рік тому +2

    thank u could u do a video on german tanks or maybe warhogs

  • @realvictor2oo7
    @realvictor2oo7 19 днів тому

    4:32 i believe the flame thrower being used in thay clip is actually an M7 flamethrower

  • @misterbig9025
    @misterbig9025 Рік тому +7

    I would love to be an operator of such weapon.

    • @vincentking9980
      @vincentking9980 Рік тому +1

      Actually, I used one back in the '90s. They're great for controlled burn off of dry foliage. We used a mixture of Kerosene and Diesel, and the "ignitor" was a burning rag attached to the nozzle with soft wire. Effective range was about 7 to 9 metres depending on air pressurization.

  • @danahethcock6820
    @danahethcock6820 7 місяців тому

    You are right about the napalm, but the tanks used it not the m2

  • @brendenshannon2501
    @brendenshannon2501 Рік тому +2

    Why would the victims in bunkers die of asphyxiation rather than the effects of the flames?

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +17

      If flame isn't directly hitting you but is in an enclosed space with you it can suck all the oxygen out of a room.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Рік тому

      Fire uses Oxygen to produce Heat and Carbon Monoxide, so if the flames and Smoke won't kill you, than O2 depravation would.

    • @forickgrimaldus8301
      @forickgrimaldus8301 Рік тому +4

      ​@@JohnnyJohnsonEsqthere is also Carbon Monoxide poisoning as CO binds to Blood more strongly than O2 meaning that the person can't breath properly.

  • @jjthesheep
    @jjthesheep 9 місяців тому

    "Zis is a Flammenwerfer, It Werfs Flammens."

  • @roon6425
    @roon6425 Рік тому +11

    i wonder how the soldiers felt about using these. it must be horrifying to have to watch people burn

    • @misterbig9025
      @misterbig9025 Рік тому

      I enjoy

    • @callumalexander-wl7tm
      @callumalexander-wl7tm Рік тому +5

      @@misterbig9025how edgy

    • @tiagodecastro2929
      @tiagodecastro2929 Рік тому +1

      I know that shooting a burning enemy as a form of euthanasia was common, though I'm not sure if it was encouraged or condoned by the higher ups in any militaries. That's why in Saving Private Ryan, it hits hard when the German machine gun team is burning alive at the beach, and an American soldier yells "Don't shoot! Let 'em burn!"
      Only example I can think of offhand right now is The Pacific, whrn Sledge watches the Marines clear a bunker, and an American Marine or two are seen gunning down burning Japanese soldiers who try to flee the bunker as they burn alive. But I'm sure there are plenty of other examples in modern entertainment. I wouldn't be surprised if soldiers did that, be it to show mercy by putting the burning enemy out of his misery, or even just to make the screams stop. We who experience the luxury of living in peace should count ourselves blessed to never have to experience these horrors.

    • @roon6425
      @roon6425 Рік тому

      @@tiagodecastro2929 Absolutely. I don't judge the soldiers for doing what they had to to survive.

    • @me67galaxylife
      @me67galaxylife Місяць тому

      i mean flamethrower users probably had a higher numbers of psychopath

  • @CG-wv5si
    @CG-wv5si 25 днів тому

    The most inhumane weapon ever designed

  • @randelbrooks
    @randelbrooks 8 місяців тому

    I would like to know more about the flamethrowers in the movie them and John carpenters the thing. Were they rigged with propane gas or were they firing some kind of liquid fuel? I am a filmmaker so I've been wondering about that all these years. For some shots you can fire a gun or some thing like a flamethrower from a distance into a mirror set at 45° to the camera so it looks like it's coming right into the camera but it's actually going past It. It's an old stage magicians trick. But I'm wondering if because of the scenes we see in them and John carpenters movie if those flamethrowers had been loaded with some kind of gas instead of a liquid fuel to prevent splashing all over the place. Any ideas?

  • @gregorysaugustine5236
    @gregorysaugustine5236 Рік тому

    I know that this movie doesn't portrays the use of flamethrower, but didn't disney use a flamethrower sound to portrays maleficent's dragonbreath? Is the flamethrower sound use in the movie came from m2?

  • @wr3nche5
    @wr3nche5 Рік тому

    as a pyromaniac, i enjoyed this video

  • @Sion_Revan
    @Sion_Revan Рік тому

    Obligatory flamethrower comment: Flammenwerfer, it werfs flammen!

  • @Autobotmatt428
    @Autobotmatt428 Рік тому +1

    What no mention of the M3 Satan Tank?

  • @Autobotmatt428
    @Autobotmatt428 Рік тому

    Did your last video get flagged ?

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +1

      copyright claim based on some background noise. It seemed a big bogus to me.

  • @ruskiwaffle1991
    @ruskiwaffle1991 Рік тому

    Damn, they got another one.

  • @rhysa.2801
    @rhysa.2801 Рік тому +2

    The gremlines strike again
    Let’s motivate them with a short burst

  • @chris.3711
    @chris.3711 Рік тому

    I hate to do this to you, but there is no account of flamethrowers used at all during the D-Day landing.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +2

      As I said, some were used in Normandy. And there are accounts of them being on the beach, but I have not found an account of them being used on D-DAY no besides them being there.

  • @GravesRWFiA
    @GravesRWFiA Рік тому

    you missed their use in europe show in "A bridge too far' when the britsh para's blow up a pill box with one.

  • @Pickledsundae
    @Pickledsundae Рік тому +1

    Does rising storm experience count 🔥🔥🔥🪖🌴🇻🇳

  • @Ddhenhp
    @Ddhenhp Рік тому +1

    Gaddamn 3 times Reupload

  • @tavish4699
    @tavish4699 Рік тому

    what use is a flamethrougher for chemical warfare departments?
    is it to burn bodies and equipment that has been gassed?

  • @DocM.
    @DocM. Рік тому

  • @scarletcrusader5431
    @scarletcrusader5431 Рік тому +2

    Feel like i've seen this before

    • @jamesrocket5616
      @jamesrocket5616 Рік тому

      Same, must be a reupload

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +4

      Sorry boys hopefully something fresh in a day or two

    • @patriotenfield3276
      @patriotenfield3276 Рік тому

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I am still patiently waiting for M101 howitzer and RPG-7 . hopefully that will do something good.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  Рік тому +3

      @@patriotenfield3276 I did the M7 Priest in your honor because of your m101 request lol