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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A lot of people have already mentioned that it was mostly dropped from planes and that’s absolutely correct.
I’ll assume your not talking about that and are thinking more in line with soldiers using flamethrowers. And the answer there is that flamethrowers have a LOT more reach than you would expect, up to about 50 yards. which is about the same effective range as a handgun in the have of a well trained marksman. 99% of the fire is far enough away from the person holding the flamethrower that they’re not in any real danger from it
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