Unlike his jubilant comrades, the prospect of a long break from combat, perhaps the end of the war itself, renders Reese morose.

Reese is the quintessential troubled loner, managing to alienate almost everyone in the squad right from the beginning. Reese was a former master sergeant, demoted to private after a court martial, who walks about armed with a distinctive M3 submachine gun. During an interlude at a church and later at a tavern, the senior non-commissioned officer, Platoon Sergeant Pike ( Fess Parker), happens upon acquaintance Private John Reese ( Steve McQueen) who has been assigned to his platoon. Rumor has it the unit will be rotated state-side and the men are almost giddy in anticipation. Montigny, Meurthe-et-Moselle, 1944: Squad leader Sergeant Larkin ( Harry Guardino) and his men are taking a well-deserved rest behind the lines after conducting front-line combat operations for several weeks. soldiers from the 95th Infantry Division who, in the fall of 1944, must hold off an entire German company for approximately 48 hours along the Siegfried Line until reinforcements reach them. They were replaced in Soviet service by the LPO-50 flamethrower in the 1950s.Hell Is for Heroes is a 1962 American war film directed by Don Siegel and starring Steve McQueen. Outside of USSR, ROKS flamethrowers were issued by Finnish army (as Liekinheitin M/41-r) and in post-WW2 era by North Korea. The effective firing range was 25 m (27.3 yards), and maximum around 45 m (50 yards). The fuel was propelled by pressurized nitrogen gas and ignited by firing specially modified 7.62x25mm TT cartridges: this was a necessity as gas torch-ignited flamethrowers perform poorly in extremely cold conditions. The fuel and gas tanks (capacity: 9 litres (2.4 US gal)) of ROKS flamethrowers were concealed in a metal casting, resembling an ordinary soldier knapsack, and the flame projector resembled a standard Mosin Nagant Rifle, so the operator of the flamethrower generally looked the same as other soldiers until the weapon fires. In 1942 it was replaced with the improved ROKS-3. The second version ROKS-2 was issued in mid-1930s and used by Soviet Army in Winter War and WW2. The first model, ROKS-1, was designed in early 1930s but wasn't put into service. ROKS ( Rantseviy Ognemyot Klyueva-Sergeeva, literally 'Knapsack Flamethrower by Klyuev and Sergeev') is a series of Soviet man-portable flamethrowers.

ROKS-3 Flamethrower company of heroes 2