Word: napalm
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...interference, he said, is causing unbearable hardship for the people in Vietnam. "There is no doubt," he asserted "that we are dropping napalm bombs on non-military targets. There comes a point when you ask whether the Communists would do anything which we are not already doing. If the answer is no, you move...
...back road, a country cop flags down a row of buses packed with peasants, cabbages and poultry, to let a column of armored personnel-carriers rumble past to a fire fight just ahead. In a village hut in Kienhoa province, an old woman lies dying, broiled lobster-red from napalm, while a soldier spoons watery soup between her flayed lips. At another hamlet a teen-age girl, driven mad from the explosions of mortar shells, runs screaming from her house across the paddy-fields, stark nude...
...armored personnel carriers against the Viet Cong defense positions. The Reds proved to be dug into three lines consisting of foxholes, dugouts and bunkers with escape tunnels. While the armor made a frontal assault, 15 helicopters and T-28s raked the Reds with ma chine guns, rockets and flaming napalm...
...Cocktails. While the Army's ubiquitous helicopters have won most of the glory, "the Peanut Air Force," as pilots wryly call it, compiled its own respectable record, plastering the Viet Cong with everything from bombs to "Mme. Nhu cocktails" (napalm mixed with charcoal). The Air Force claims that it has accounted for 35% of Viet Cong casualties...
Vietnamese-piloted planes pursued them to the border, killed an estimated 40 Reds with flaming napalm. But the troops had no U.S. helicopter support. Reason: to avoid the slightest chance of intruding on Cambodia's territory, American pilots are under orders not to fly within three miles of the border in areas where it is unmarked...