That is correct. In The Great War we had not yet used naphthenic and palmitic acids as the thickening agents in our incendiary arsenal.
But napalm is easier to spell than incendiary........
In 1942, chemistry professor Louis F. Fieser, along with his team at Harvard developed napalm. They found that powdered aluminium soap of
naphthalene with
palmitate mixed with gasoline shot further out of flame throwers and burned slower at a higher temperature.
I think you are correct, Napalm didn't come around until I think Vietnam, what they had in WWII was much like Napalm, but was not as thick. And incendiary sounds about right...
Technically speaking, true napalm wasn't used in Vietnam. Another solvent, Napalm-B was used instead and was made up of polystyrene and benzene mixed with the gasoline. Supposedly was supposed to be safer and more reliable. What was used in WW2 and Korea was true napalm.
correct me if I'm wrong. but i don't think they were call napalm bombs back then but incendiary bombs.
6 of one, half dozen of another. Incendiary is just a classification that covers ordnance of that type, napalm being within the class of incendiary weapons.
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