Bombing ground targets from the air is tricky and not always accurate. But a new type of bomb creates an unimaginable level of destruction - and strengthens U.S. attacks in the Pacific. How to ...

Napalm had been used before, most notably in the incendiary bombs that devastated large swaths of Japanese cities during World War II, including some 60 percent of Tokyo. What distinguished Napalm ...

Technology The USA relied on high altitude bombers to drop heavy bombs in North Vietnam. They used jets to dump napalm, a chemical that burnt skin down to the bone, on suspected Vietcong ...

Attitudes shaped by World War II were not always a good fit in ... knowledge of the devastation that incendiary bombs, a forerunner to napalm, had caused. Those images stayed with Sewell at ...