Napalm and Agent Orange was used mainly to kill the jungle vegetation so the Viet Cong couldn't hide and made it impossible for people to live or grow cops in the areas where they were dropped.
napalm was used in Vietnam because Vietnam's forests were thick and would not burn with regular fire. cutting down forests would take months on end. the solution..the military killed viet cong and there forests with napalm.
In Vietnam, napalm was first used against buildings. Later on, this was used as an anti-personnel weapon that sticks to skin and caused severe burns.
The US used napalm which was a mixture of petrol and a chemical thickner which produces a though sticky gel that attaches itself to the skin.
During WW2
Napalm bombs were used in the Vietnam War and killed a lot of people.
Napalm?
Napalm was Used in the increased American air strikes on communist forces throughout Vietnam.
The US tested napalm, bombs and chemical weapons on the Vietnam civilians.
Napalm was used by the US Army because the Vietcong( North Vietnam) used guerrilla tactics and there jungles were so think the us army had to find a way throw with out getting attack from surprise. The napalm is a jelly based atomic bomb that set the jungle on fire. napalm was not the only thing they used they also use agent orange witch was a pesticide that killed the plants.
napalm was used in Germany and japan, vietnam, and Korea. napalm was not used in enduring freedom or in modern warfare due to being to lethal and inflicting unnecessary punishment on civilian who would come into contact with napalm
The actual type of napalm used during the Vietnam War is not being used. A derivative is currently within the US inventory; and can be deployed in accordance with the guidelines placed upon it by the UN Convention of 1980.
The object of the vietnam war were to kill lots of people in the quickest way possible. I mean napalm was the most effective thing we used. I love napalm:D
Napalm was used in the Vietnam war. Operation Rolling Thunder was backed up by the phosphorous and napalm bombs It caused a great deal suffering in Vietnam giving many innocent civilians dreadful burns. Also, during the Tet Offensive Napalm was used in Khe Sahn in Operation Niagra to try to stop the offensive of the NVA on the military compound.
Napalm burned a lot of it off. It most likely reads in your school book that you were supposed to read this from.
I'm doing an assignment on this, and the "Napalm Girl" image, which depicts a 9 year old girl who'd been hit by a napalm strike and suffered third degree burns to roughly half of her body. The picture was famous for showing people some horrors of the Vietnamese War. I'm led to believe that that image and the public's reaction to it caused the prohibition of Napalm use.
Both A and B Agent Orange Napalm