Pacific Base Command

In July 1944, after giving courses or demonstrations for nearly 37,000 students, Unmacht s office turned over the operating training responsibility to the Chemical Officer, Central Pacific Base Command. Between i July 1944 and 31 August 1945 the CPBC office conducted... 

Chemical Section, Pacific Base Command, with help from the Navy, the Marine Corps, other Army elements, and civilians. Briefly, the flame unit, designated the POA CWS Hi, consisted of a Ronson flame thrower installed in a salvaged yy-mm. gun tube and mounted in a medium tank. It had a maximum effective range of about lOO yards (with thickened fuel), a capacity of nearly 300 gallons, and a firing time of 150 seconds. ... 

A full account of the development of the auxiliary flame thrower in Hawaii may be found in History of Chemical Section, U.S. Army Forces Middle Pacific, 7 Dec 4l-2 Sep 45, vols. II and III. (2) Tentative Instruction Book for Flame Thrower, Mechanized POA-CWS Periscope H (E4R2) A-HlA and HlB, prepared by CWS Central Pacific Base Command, 24 Feb 45, ETF 550-344. (3) CW Supply Catalog, List of Service Parts and Spare Parts for Flame Thrower, Mechanized, POA-CWS Periscope H (E4R2) A-HlB, prepared by Hq Central Pacific Base Command, 1 Jul 45, ETF 550-484A. 

Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, which was based at Pearl Harbor west of Honolulu on the southern coast of Oahu, received a similar but even more pointed message from the Navy Department a few hours later ... 

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