Word: napalm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dawn, the G.I.s and French counterattacked. Three times ist Lieut. Richard Kotite's platoon was thrown back from an enemy hill position. Then fighter planes dropped napalm on the Reds. Said Kotite: "We picked them off like ducks...
...Japanese labor during the Korean war showed how low Communist prestige has sunk. Unlike their French and Italian comrades, Japanese Reds were unable to engineer anti-armament strikes, work stoppages or sabotage. Japanese railroads carry record-breaking loads for the Korea war, Japanese factories produce such items as napalm tanks for U.N. forces in Korea...
...weeks, moved doggedly forward, followed by supply trucks carrying rice bags, stoves, bicycles, furniture, 1,001 other gypsylike belongings. On the second day of their advance, they were stalled at the foot of a craggy hill by concentrated North Korean small-arms fire. After artillery and F80 jets dropping napalm had driven the enemy off, the ROKs, yelling "Choso! Choso!" (Good! Good!) went in and seized the hill...
...flipped a switch, and a beam of strong light bore down through the flare-light. "Roger, Firefly, Roger," said the Invader pilot. He dived through winking flashes of small-arms fire and dropped two tanks of napalm on the hill, which burst into flame. "That's good, that's good, Firefly," exulted Bandbox. "That's right in there. Give 'em a few more...
...Napalm is gasoline chemically thickened or "jellied" so that it will spread over the ground while burning, instead of going up in an instantaneous whoosh, as ordinary gasoline would. The first satisfactory thickener found during experiments in World War II was a mixture of aluminum naphthenate and certain fatty compounds from coconuts, hence the name "napalm" (nap from naphthenate, and palm referring to the coconuts). In Korea, napalm is carried under the wings of Air Force, Navy and Marine tactical planes, in containers of 100 or 150 gallons, and is set off (when the containers hit the ground) by white...