Word: napalm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week U.N. fighter-bombers flew 850 sorties against the Pyongyang targets. The planes were flown by U.S., British, South African, Australian and South Korean pilots; some were from carriers, including Britain's Ocean. They dropped 700 tons of bombs, thousands of gallons of napalm, left their targets blasted and burning. More than 100 U.S. Sabre and Australian Meteor jets flew top cover, drove off the few MIGs that tried to interfere. Only one plane-a Thunderjet-was lost to Pyongyang's formidable flak...
...first light one morning last week, blue-black F80 Shooting Stars began howling off the runways of the 8th Fighter-Bomber Wing, making the short run to the target, setting it on fire with napalm. The enemy sent his fast MIGs down from the north to interfere, but they were driven off with heavy losses by U.S. Sabres. As fast as the F-80s got back to base, they were reloaded and refueled for follow-up missions; altogether the wing flew 250 sorties. The fighter-bombers knocked out 32 Red antiaircraft positions, dropped some 33,000 gallons of napalm...
...later adorns the bookshelf of every Harvard Chemistry major. The Fiesers are childless, but they own two Siamese cats. The elder cat was named "Syn K. Pooh," after Synthetic Vitamin K, which Fieser first synthesized; and the younger was named "J.G. Pooh" after Jellied Gasoline (now Known as Napalm), also developed by Fieser. "I wanted to name him Napalm, but the name was a military secret them," he says. Drawings of the cats grace the prefaces of all his books...
...While Napalm was Fieser's most spectacular war-time discovery, it was but one one many. Reports on his war projects fill two volumes. Fieser developed a "comfort fire" for isolated troops, which he chauvinistically called the "Harvard Candle," a bomb to ignite oil slicks, christened the "Paul Revere" (because it works on land or sea"), and a number of other incendiary bombs...
...destroyer's star shells, the South Korean infantrymen cut down the attackers, dug in and held. At dawn the cruiser lifted its fire from the target hill, and hands on deck watched airplanes from the carrier Bon Homme Richard buzz inland to hit the enemy with napalm and rockets...