Flaming onion
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title:
Flaming onion
text:
The flaming onion was a 37 mm Hotchkiss revolving-barrel anti-aircraft gun used by the German army at the beginning of World War I, the name referring to both the gun, and especially the flare or tracer ammunition it fired. The American "balloon-buster" ace, Frank Luke, was a prominent victim of later versions of this device, and it was mentioned in Eddie Rickenbacker's book Fighting the Flying Circus and in many "Biggles" stories. Later in the war the term was also applied to any sort of anti-a
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description:
WW1-era German anti-aircraft gun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_onion
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date modified:
2022-08-23T06:23:55Z
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