In reply to GameboyRMH :
A lot of time the sacrifices were volunteers. They were eager to meet the gods, and family and friends would give them messages of thanks and requests for good fortune in love and harvest to give to the gods when they met them.
In reply to SaltyDog :
The Russians took great pains to disguise flamethrowers as SMGs or rifles, hiding the pilot flame in a "silencer" and stuff.
I am sure they were primary targets mostly because people don't like being set on fire, but I would imagine that there was also a factor of "hey Hans, watch this guy go up like fireworks when I shoot 'im"
See also: aiming for the wing roots of certain Japanese planes, or the oxygen tank behind the pilot. Big fireball and plane go boom.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
I love how in WWI, the Germans screamed about Americans using shotguns and said that they were a war crime, meanwhile they were the guys who first started using chemical weapons and flamethrowers.
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