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Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Vietnam Reserach, Napalm Sierra Shamhart
The U.S army used gasoline in combat flamethrowers. However that wasn't effective enough because the flames didn't burn long enough. Chemists from Harvard designed Napalm which is a replacement for rubber which would be used in the gasoline to make the flamethrowers effective. Napalm is made by mixing napthenic and palmitic acids into gasoline. U.S soldiers began using Napalm in bombs, during the Vietnam War, 388,000 tons of napalm were dropped. Dropping bombs was more effective than using a flamethrower because they could engulf an entire 2,500 square foot area with one bomb. The downside of this is that when dropping the bombs from aircraft they often were not precise in the dropping area which is what led to civilians lives being in danger. Napalm is extremely harmful in fact the wounds caused by the acid are too strong to ever heal. As soon as the acid touches the skin it sticks to the area and begins to melt the flesh off the bone. To put napalm out you must try to wipe it off successfully without spreading it to other areas. The use of napalm in war was spread all over the media, the famous napalm girl circled media all over the world. This media supported the antiwar movement greatly. A group of college students started a protest where they referred to the U.S soldiers as baby killers. Since the war was fought in Vietnam the use of these deadly weapons affected their civilization greatly. An estimated 1.3 million civilians were killed due to the U.S armies weaponry. Along with the taking of civilian lives by weapon they also were dying of starvation because it was impossible to farm on land that was poisoned by the chemicals from the napalm bombs. The civilian deaths put great pressure on the U.S army. There were many protests against them and the war itself for the casualties When the U.S soldiers returned home from Vietnam many of them were treated poorly because of their actions during war like hurting Vietnam civilians. .
Word Count-348
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wars-effect-vietnamese-land-and-people
https://thevietnamwar.info/napalm-vietnam-war/
Word Count-348
Links
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/wars-effect-vietnamese-land-and-people
https://thevietnamwar.info/napalm-vietnam-war/
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Hi Sierra!
ReplyDeleteI had heard of napalm before but I never actually knew what it was! I think what napalm does when it touches the skin is horrifying and thinking back on the picture of the little girl is so sad knowing that she had napalm all over her. Do you think we should have used napalm as a weapon in the war?
Napalm was a very lethal weapon. It's interesting that the only way to get rid of it was to wipe it off without spreading it more. Do you think the use of napalm by the U.S. was justifiable?
ReplyDeleteThis connects to the research I did, about innocent civilians being badly affected by the weapons used in the war. I like how you included how napalm was created and why.
ReplyDeleteWhile researching about Agent Orange, the use of Napalm came up. I think it's crazy that the chemicals were allowed to be used, even though it made such a harmful impact.
ReplyDeleteI had always heard of Napalm and that it was some type of mixture of gasoline and something else. It's crazy to think that such a mixture was and is so deadly and destructive. I had no idea that it was so intense that it would melt the flesh off the bone.
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