"NAPALM. The most effective "anti-personnel" weapon, it is euphemistically described as "unfamiliar cooking fluid" by those apologists for American military methods. They automatically attribute all napalm cases to domestic accidents caused by the people using gasoline instead of kerosene in their cooking stoves. Kerosene is far too expensive for the peasants, who normally use charcoal for cooking. The only "cooking fluid" they know is very "unfamiliar" – it is delivered through their roofs by U.S. planes.
Some of its finer selling points were explained to me by a pilot in 1966: "We sure are pleased with those backroom boys at Dow. The original product wasn’t so hot – if the gooks were quick they could scrape it off. So the boys started adding polystyrene – now it sticks like shit to a blanket. But then if the gooks jumped under water it stopped burning, so they started adding Willie Peter (WP – white phosphorus) so’s to make it burn better. It’ll even burn under water now. And just one drop is enough, it’ll keep on burning right down to the bone so they die anyway from phosphorous poisoning."
Philip Jones Griffiths describes its use in Vietnam:
"Napalm is the most terrible pain you can imagine," said Kim Phuc, a napalm bombing survivor known from a famous Vietnam War photograph. "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius. Napalm generates temperatures of 800 to 1,200 degrees Celsius."
Phuc sustained third-degree burns to half her body and was not expected to live. But thanks to assistance from South Vietnamese photographer Nick Ut, and after surviving a 14-month hospital stay and 17 operations, she became an outspoken peace activist.
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Enzobluesays...God Bless the Dupont Chemical Corporation!
bigheadsays...oh you mean bless them cuz they were so bad ,
persephonesays...Have there been any class actions against the U.S. military from survivors of napalm? I would have thought the pain and suffering endured would be covered by the law.
Wingoguysays...Probably about as many class action law suits against the Vietnamese government for torture of American POWs.
regina.aquaesays...I think you mean "napalm" in the title. Not naplam.
antsays...Nice video footage, but sad/depressing.
choggiesays......the slow-mo and ominous soundtrack make it look like a AM-INT piece....."The Horror!!!"
sirexsays..."Probably about as many class action law suits against the Vietnamese government for torture of American POWs."
didnt that happen on their soil ?
Wingoguysays...Sirex - I think the point we're all trying to make is that some things are inhumane, no matter the circumstances.
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