In a few minutes, American infantry began coming up onto the dunes, and the Shermans were shooting away at that machine gun behind the PAK shield. One of the American infantry had a flamethrower, and he got close enough to use it on the PAK. The flames were enormous and they shot out very fast, like a fire hose but full of burning liquid. The whole PAK position was covered in these flames; the burning stuff was dripping off it and making a pool of fire on the sand.