 Italy employed man-portable flamethrowers and L3 Lf flame tanks during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935 to 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II.The L3 Lf flame tank was a CV-33 or CV-35 tankette with a flamethrower operating from the machine gun mount.In the Northern Africa Theatre, the L3 Lf flame tank found little to no success.