>“We could not have taken the island without the flamethrower,” said Bill Henderson, a Marine Corps veteran who fought on Iwo Jima, in a Marine Corps oral history of the battle. “It saved lives because it did not require men to go into caves, which were all booby-trapped and promised certain death to all who entered.”
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На Иводзиме огнеметы сыграли очень большую роль, и эмоциональная оценка имеет значение, хотя там было полно танков.
