but the aircraft tied to the film’s famous bit of dialogue is the Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” Kilgore declares after a five-ship of F-5s ...

The U.S. military's use of napalm in Vietnam triggered widespread student protests, some aimed at the manufacturer, The Dow Chemical Company. Napalm had been used before, most notably in the ...