Japanese Defenders Were Shocked — One M2 Flamethrower Erased an Entire Cave System in Seconds
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Japanese Defenders Were Shocked — One M2 Flamethrower Erased an Entire Cave System in Seconds
Japanese guns, artillery, and even battleships couldn’t touch them. Hidden deep inside coral and limestone, Japanese cave networks on Peleliu and Okinawa were supposed to be invincible – immune to shells, grenades, and anything short of an earthquake. Marines called places like Bloody Nose Ridge “The Meat Grinder” because every assault ended the same way: men cut down by machine guns firing from holes the size of a fist. Then one man walked up with an M2 on his back and cleared an entire cave in seconds. This episode dives into the brutal evolution of cave warfare in the Pacific – from artillery-proof tunnels and interlocking kill zones, to the moment Marines unleashed the M2 flamethrower and turned supposedly impregnable caves into ovens. We follow the weapon from Peleliu’s Umurbrogol Mountains to the Shuri Line on Okinawa, showing how a single operator with a tank of pressurized fire could do what battleships and bombers couldn’t: reach into the darkness, burn the air itself, and erase an entire cave complex in one burst.
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