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1st Volume in New Reprint Series

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Price: $16.95

Portable Flame Throwers, M1 and M1A1
War Department Technical Manual TM3-375

Military Reprint #MM120

Paperback (ISBN 978-0-557-26810-8) - #MM120-P — $16.95
PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file sent by mail on a DVD data disk - #MM120-PDF — $9.99

First Facsimile Reprint Edition (January 2010)
123 pages
57 photos and drawings

This is a complete facsimile reprint of the May 1943 edition of the War Department manual for the Portable Flamethrowers, M1 and M1A1, as prepared under the direction of the Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. This manual was intended for the using arms and services. It gave all necessary information regarding the construction, functioning, and identification of all standard materiel pertaining to the portable flame thrower, with directions for operating and servicing such materiel.