| The comment on "Blue Airplanes" is what my feeling on it was as well when I read it. Napalm is arguably a good weapon to use on troops in bunkers and caves, but I think the rationale was that it didn't have any explosive value. It would burn whatever it hit and stick to it so it was hard to get off/extinguish, but it had zero blast damage. The HE creates a sharp overpressure which knocks things down or crushes them, plus the fragments have a much greater area of lethality than the napalm trace would. The "fear factor" doesn't seem to have been figured in, as nearly every army since the beginning of recorded history has shown a great fear and respect for flame weapons. (They're currently not considered politically correct, and the same types who banned napalm are now trying to ban thermobaric weapons for the same reason. Something oxymoronic about "humane weapons" to me...) Cookie Sewell AMPS |