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Blood-forming tissues, similarly, have an affinity for phosphorus. Radioactive phosphorus alleviates polycythemia...
...into opposition again as it got its smoke program under way. But field commanders soon found that white phosphorus, which not only screens but burns on contact, was more feared by the enemy than high explosive. The Navy was even more pleased with CWS's protective smokes. Not a ship was lost by air attack at Anzio after CWS touched off its smoke pots. At Okinawa even the Navy's big battlewagons were glad to come in under CWS's smoke to hide from the Kamikaze planes...
...meager as to be almost unbelievable. There is little antiaircraft fire in the target area and if any enemy night fighters are in the air, none has made aggressive sweeps toward our aircraft. In the time we have been near the target we have seen only a few phosphorus shells from land-based flak batteries and a few tracers from small warships in the harbor but none came close. . . . They could not save this northern Honshu shipping center [Aomorí] even though they knew 24 hours in advance [see above] that we were going to burn it to the ground...
...Army Chemical Warfare Service: a new fire bomb, the M-74, said to be even more effective than the jellied-gasoline M69 (TIME, April 2). A concoction of phosphorus, magnesium, asphalt, gasoline and other chemicals, the 10-lb. bomb throws gobs of clinging, white-hot lava which are hotter and harder to put out than gasoline...
...Marines on top of Sugar Loai Hill. They had been ordered to hold the position all night, at any cost. By dawn 46 of them had been killed or wounded by Japanese hand grenades. Then, into the foxhole where the remaining four huddled, the Japs dropped a white phosphorus shell, burning three men to death. The last survivor crawled down to an aid station...