Flamethrowers were invented in 1900 by the German army, but weren't used on the battlefield until World War I. Flamethrowers simply used some pressurized gas to shoot oil through a nozzle with a flame attached to it creating a jet stream of fire. The first flamethrowers were used by two-men to clear enemy trenches from a range of 25 meters. Later, flamethrowers were upgraded and had a range of up to 40 but still only had 40 seconds of fuel. On an extreme negative, the person using the flamethrower quickly became the target of gunfire and was killed.

Pill boxes were small re-enforced concrete shacks with narrow slits in which machine guns would fire out

of. The pill-boxes weren't used for long due to labor costs, and generals feared that soldiers would become more defensive-minded. The machine-gun had been used foe years before, but new technology provided better guns, and many fell victim to machine gun fire.

The tank was another new invention used in World War I. The first tank used in the battlefield was the Mark I. The Mark I was first used in 1916 after infantry troops failed to break German lines. The tank quickly proved its worth. When the tanks first arrived at the battlefield German soldiers became terrified of the machines, and the tank broke through the enemy lines. The primary problem with the tank was it could only be used on certain terrain.

War spread to the air in World War I with the then-new airplane. Machine guns were mounted on top of aircrafts, or built directly right into the body of the plane. A battle between two planes was called a dogfight. As the war raged on, pilo

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