I know Korea had napalm but did WW2?
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Napalm was invented by two scientists at Harvard University in 1943. It's first use in WWII was in July 1944.
It was mainly used in the Pacific against the Japanese.
How do you think the B-29's managed to burn down all of those Japanese cities??? They used the M-69 firebomb cluster.
Here is some detailed info on this weapon:
* The most devastating conventional bomb used by the Americans in WWII was the M-69 incendiary cluster. The first Boeing B-29 raids against the Japanese mainland were performed in the fall of 1944, using high altitude daylight precision bombing with high explosive bombs. For various reasons, this strategy proved ineffective, and in the spring of 1945 the Army Air Force moved to low level incendiary bombing at night.
The M-69 firebomb had been developed earlier in the war and proved ideal for the task. The M-69 was a simple, clever weapon. It looked like a length of pipe, and weighed only 2.3 kilograms (6.2 pounds). As handling such a small weapon was inconvenient, and dropping quantities of small bombs from high altitude was wildly inaccurate, it was designed to be incorporated into an "aimable cluster", a type of finned cluster bomb that contained 38 of the M-69 firebombs.
The aimable cluster was a bundle of M-69s fitted with a nose shroud and tail assembly. It was dropped from high altitude and then broke apart at about 900 meters (2,000 feet), scattering its M-69s. Each M-69 then ejected a long strip of cloth to stabilize itself, and crashed nose-first into buildings below. On impact, it ignited its payload of napalm, which shot out of the tail of the bomb in a burning jet. Under optimum conditions, this jet could travel 45 meters (150 feet).
The M-69 was small and could not penetrate the roofs of solidly constructed buildings. However, most Japanese buildings were lightly built and extremely vulnerable to fire. A copy of a Japanese residential area was built in the US to test the M-69, and was incinerated in a test bombing.
