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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It was mostly dropped from planes. Forces on the ground would call out target coordinates and planes would drop canisters of napalm.
There were accidents. Planes would either mistake US troops for the enemy, or napalm drops would have defective hardware affecting their drop trajectory and causing them to fall short.
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