Word: napalm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dense curtain of fire from light and heavy weapons, including 105-mm. howitzers; leaping, screaming, the Reds answered with machine guns, mortars, bazookas, recoilless rifles. Bearcats and B-26s from Hanoi arrived to light the horrid scene with flares, to strafe the swarming guerrillas and sear them with napalm...
...Communists had no aircraft or antiaircraft guns. With impunity, French spotter planes could hover close enough to see a man reading a map, call in a dozen Bearcats for a napalm strike and watch a camouflaged Viet Minh troop concentration scatter in terror. All that was required now was for the fanatical Communists to charge the French positions, throw themselves on the French wire...
Nghialo was defended by a force of about 600 French and Vietnamese troops. Giap's first two assaults were beaten off with the help of B-26s and napalm bombs. After the third attack, in darkness and mist, a last message reached the military teleprinter in Hanoi: "Thank you for very close air support. Goodbye." Next day the French authorities announced that Nghialo had fallen...
During the week the crest changed hands more than 20 times. Both sides had tanks and great concentrations of mortars and artillery. The ROKs also had planes-U.S. fighter-bombers that raked Chinese positions north of the hill with bombs, machine guns and napalm, while U.S. Sabres kept the enemy's MIGs away...
...Korea, and supply targets on both coasts and in Pyongyang, the already battered North Korean capital. The Reds complained with almost unprecedented shrillness. Radio Pyongyang called the U.N. air campaign "a new international crime worse than the atrocities committed by Hitler." The Communists also protested the U.N. use of napalm firebombs as an act of "barbarism," a charge long made by European Communists and fellow travelers...