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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Napalm attacks would be called in via air strikes and these would be requested where Americans either couldn’t go or suspected were heavily filled with enemy, usually to deliberately torch the area so troops could then possibly go. But American soldiers definitely did not go unscathed, In the battle for LZXRAY napalm was dropped 1st Air Cav’s positions in a friendly fire incident. Many suffer side effects today from napalm exposure.
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