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 is explained fairly well in “The Bomber Mafia” by Malcom Gladwell. The Defense Dept. even built a fake Japanese town to test napalm. It was great for burning wooden structures.
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