“With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit longer.” —Inscription on the National Memorial to the “Seabees” The U.S. Naval Construction Battalions Today someone asked me to comment on the article “The Day Israel Died,” by Kurt Schlichter. An excerpt. With the Mossad’s assessment in hand…
Flamethrowers! For Ellie
March 22, 2015
A post about flamethrowers dedicated to Ellie Kesselman, who brought my attention to this. It uses gasoline (petrol), and has a range of 26 feet (8 meters.) The flamethrower was first used by the Greeks in AD 673 to burn Muslim warships besieging Constantinople. This weapon consisted of a metal tube that sprayed what was…