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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Based on your description I think you might be conflating napalm and white phosphorus.
Napalm is just jellied gasoline, it doesn’t really burn underwater(would just float on top and burn), and it’s also not any more harmful than normal fuels (so dont shower in it every day or drink/huff it and you’d be fine).
WP however does reignite even if doused in water, and it’s also poisonous as far as I’m aware, way nastier shit than napalm.
The way people stay safe from these things is by staying the fuck away from them, pretty much how you deal with any area effect weapons.
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