I know napalm usage was quite common in wartime between WW2 and Vietnam, and I’m also very aware of just how damaging the substance was to the people affected. Internal damage, skin essentially melting, burning underwater (cue Phil Swift), etc. My question is, how were soldiers able to, for lack of a better word, safely use napalm without harming themselves as well as their targets?
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Basically the pilots would come down low, sometimes withing a few hundred feet. They would drop as close as possible usually withing 300 meters of the frontline. Many times they would fly over the spot to get a bearing and then fly the second pass where they would drop the ordnance. The pilots where well trained and determined to save their comrades
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