Gasbrander:
Kan iemand hier meer over vertellen(alles is welkom) er zat een kaartje bij, Duitse wehrmacht luteca K5512 (maar of dat zo is?) hoorde dat hij gerepareerd zou zijn en ze een 5 pfenning muntje er in gestopt hebben. Die Ermelo bout lijkt me er later opgezet.
Wie weet er meer over deze brander.
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Re: Wie weet er meer over deze brander.
Zulke grote branders werd gebruikt in de winter om de tank motor voor te warmen om te kunnen starten,maar dat is denk ik een ander model dan deze 
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Re: Wie weet er meer over deze brander.
Er is nog een ander, minder gezellig verhaal met betrekking tot dit soort branders:
"The Blowtorch Battalion" - On May 6th, 1943, Peiper was awarded the German Cross in Gold for his achievements in February 1943 around Kharkov, where his unit gained the nickname the "Blowtorch Battalion". Reportedly, the nickname derived from the torching and slaughter of two Soviet villages where their inhabitants were either shot or burned. Ukrainian sources, including surviving witness Ivan Kiselev, who was 14 at the time of the massacre, described the killings at the villages of Yefremovka and Semyonovka on February 17th, 1943. On February 12th, Waffen-SS troops of the LSSAH occupied the two villages, where retreating Soviet forces had wounded two SS officers. In retaliation, five days later LSSAH troops killed 872 men, women and children. Some 240 of these were burned alive in the church of Yefremovka. In August 1944, when Sturmbannfuhrer Jacob Hanreich was captured south of Falaise in France and interrogated by the Allies, he stated that Peiper was "particularly eager to execute the order to burn villages". Hanreich had previously served with Leibstandarte but was with SS Division Hitlerjugend at the time of his capture. The blowtorch became an unofficial symbol of the unit and was painted on the battalion's vehicles.
"The Blowtorch Battalion" - On May 6th, 1943, Peiper was awarded the German Cross in Gold for his achievements in February 1943 around Kharkov, where his unit gained the nickname the "Blowtorch Battalion". Reportedly, the nickname derived from the torching and slaughter of two Soviet villages where their inhabitants were either shot or burned. Ukrainian sources, including surviving witness Ivan Kiselev, who was 14 at the time of the massacre, described the killings at the villages of Yefremovka and Semyonovka on February 17th, 1943. On February 12th, Waffen-SS troops of the LSSAH occupied the two villages, where retreating Soviet forces had wounded two SS officers. In retaliation, five days later LSSAH troops killed 872 men, women and children. Some 240 of these were burned alive in the church of Yefremovka. In August 1944, when Sturmbannfuhrer Jacob Hanreich was captured south of Falaise in France and interrogated by the Allies, he stated that Peiper was "particularly eager to execute the order to burn villages". Hanreich had previously served with Leibstandarte but was with SS Division Hitlerjugend at the time of his capture. The blowtorch became an unofficial symbol of the unit and was painted on the battalion's vehicles.
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