Image of an experimental knapsack flame projector SUBIECT 54880 used by the Ordnance Dept. during World War One. The photograph was taken on September 7, 1918 and received with the description "TAKEN 18SUED NUMBER AU EXPERIMENTAL KNAPSACK FLAME Projector." Notes indicate it was referred to as DRONCON.

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