Ronson flame thrower

Memo, CmlO CENPAC for G-3 DCofS and CofS CENPAC, 17 Apr 44, sub Installation of Ronson Flame Thrower in Light Tank. History, CWS AFMIDPAC, vol. Ill, ref. 6. 

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. ... 

In September the Tenth Army, planning an attack—later canceled— on Formosa, requested that large capacity flame throwers be installed in fifty-four M4 medium tanks. In the first model the company installed a Ronson gun like that used on Satan. The Tenth Army pointed out that the silhouette was different from the 75-mm. gun of the regular M4 tank, and this would permit the enemy to spot flame tanks. The problem then arose of obtaining 75-mm. gun tubes to enclose the flame gun. Ordnance did not wish to sacrifice new tubes for the manufacture of flame throwers, and only a few salvaged tubes were available. Seabees machined these items to hold the flame gun, and in the meantime the ASF shipped fourteen salvaged tubes under high priority. Later, Colonel Unmacht obtained authority to use forty-two serviceable tubes for the purpose. 

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