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A Chinese Flamethrower Company is comprised of 9 officers and 75 enlisted men equipped with 27 flamethrowers. The PLA first used flamethrowers against the Kuomintang army stationed on the Yijiangshan Island in January 1955. They later used flamethrowers extensively during the Sino-Indian War of 1962 as well the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 and still exist in some infantry divisions.*