![]() One was kept working for a while to impress visitors, such as the Royal Family. The Yank Gas and Flame Regiment was trained by the Brit Special Brigade, and by the time they were given the task of training the Americans they had converted their one flame thrower (FW) company (Z Company) to other purposes, and put their large emplaced FW in storage out in the weather to rust to pieces. The US AEF almost certainly never used flame throwers in combat. Your question seems to indicate that you mean US equipment, usage, etc. The AEF was largely equipped with the French Chauchat, which was a piece of junk, one writer calling it the worst MG ever made. ![]() Do you mean a Browning M1919? Or was the BAR a Browning M1917? (To date myself, I have fired both in my training.) The former was never used by the AEF, and the latter in limited numbers having read about 30 AEF official histories and personal narratives, I have never read of it having actually been in use, although I understand it was. ![]()
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