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113-er. When a match was applied it would produce a good flame.
One could boil about 2 dixies of water on it. They were a great boon during the winter months. It was not allowed to have fires in the front line for fear of attracting the enemy. I was a flare pistol carrier for 3 months. I don't know why I carried it but the fact remains I had a little adventure which brought down a shower of abuse upon my devoted head and that was in trying to clean up my flare pistol. I pulled the trigger. Someone had put a flare cartridge in the barrel and I didn't know it, the next thing I knew was a
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