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I'd second that VMF-311 F9F's at least
carried napalm, but without being able to prove the negative, USN F9F's and
F2H's might never have, didn't commonly anyway. Don't recall seeing
in ordnance expenditure tables for air groups, plus napalm canister
expenditure even by AD's and F4U's usually a small fraction of bomb expenditure.
USN did close support sometimes but usually interdiction where
bridges and rail lines were the default targets and large and small bombs
considered appropriate weapons respectively.
According to "Involuntary" by Anderson about the
731st BS, B-26 night intruders stopped carrying napalm due to separation
problems on the napalm-capable pylons, would sometimes take off the external
fuel tanks next to them when dropped.
Joe
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