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Re: Napalm

17 September 1950
"to support the  8th  Army offensive 5th Air Force F-51s and F-80s flew  napalm attacks reportedly  killing 1,200 ennemy  soldiers in  Tabu-dong,Yongchon,and the Naktong River area.
                  
     Useing --google--- type in the following
                       
      C-119 s dropping napalm during korean war
                        
  the above will be found at          Air war korea---- scroll down to 17th Sept
                
      Under  this same web page go to number 2 web site scroll down to
                       
   Untitled Document
             
   scroll down to 8-USAF hist  study 7
                            9-ORO,close Air support operation in korea.
    This gives results of 110 gallons  of  napalm.
                            
     Les
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: Napalm

Sandy,

Right, forgot the F-80s which carried a great deal of the brunt of ground attack for some time. Thompson is the one who states that the F-84s never carried out napalm raids.

Most of the Panther missions I looked at talked about problems with bombs and not napalm and the mission expenditures list didn't seem to show it either. VMF-311 is the Corps, so them I would EXPECT to be different! 8-)

Cookie Sewell
AMPS

PS John -- one pylon, one tank of napalm maximum. As I noted previously some planes had more pylons than they could use to carry napalm, like the Corsair (up to 13 of which they could only carry napalm on 2.)