TITLE:        How Soldiers Smoked Under Rain ☔️
CHANNEL:      The Art Of War  (@theartofwarrr)
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American soldiers would intentionally light their cigarettes off machine guns

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FULL SCRIPT:
American soldiers would intentionally light their cigarettes off machine guns during the landings in Normandy. You see, days of heavy rain had soaked their matches, leaving them no options to smoke. But their Browning M2 machine guns heated up to over 400° C during sustained fire. So soldiers started pressing [music] their cigarettes against the scorching barrels between bursts, turning the most dangerous weapon on the beach into a working lighter.

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TIMED:
[000.00] American soldiers would intentionally
[001.84] light their cigarettes off machine guns
[003.64] during the landings in Normandy. You
[005.28] see, days of heavy rain had soaked their
[007.28] matches, leaving them no options to
[009.20] smoke. But their Browning M2 machine
[011.28] guns heated up to over 400° C during
[014.40] sustained fire. So soldiers started
[016.12] pressing [music] their cigarettes
[017.00] against the scorching barrels between
[018.52] bursts, turning the most dangerous
[020.40] weapon on the beach into a working
[021.96] lighter.
