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With all due respect to my friends above what they say is at odds to my understanding.
I believe a 'Flaming Onion' to be a 37mm 'gatling' style multi-barrelled AA gun. *The photo I saw showed a hand cranked thing like a normal gatling on steroids. It was mounted on some roughly welded steel structure attached to a 'permanent' concrete base and seemed to have a big pole with which a second guy would traverse the thing. (Buggered if I can remember where I saw the picture tho').
As to the theory that they were linked - I don't think so! *I think they had clips of shells that went out in groups of 8 or so close together.
IIRC 4AFC lost 1 or 2 pilots to the things in the whole of 1918.
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