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On 2/24/2025 3:29 AM, Steve Hayes wrote:
> On 23 Feb 2025 15:56:12 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> 
>> Agent Orange as well as napalm were never intended to be used the way they
>> wound up.  Agent Orange was mostly 2,4-D and the notion is that it was going
>> to be a non-toxic way to expose the HCM trail so Americans could at least
>> determine the amount of traffic coming down from the north and maybe stop it.
>> Napalm was also originally intended as a defoliant for more rapid spot use.
> 
> I recall reading in "Popular Mechanics" back in the early 1950ws about
> the uses of napalm in the Korean War. A particularly vivid memory was
> a diagram showing the effects of dropping it at either entrance of a
> railway tunnel with the train inside. If the people on the train
> didn't burn to death, they would suffocate from lack of oxygen as the
> napalm consumed it all.

Its also an inspiration for songwriters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9eybY9qFfY

pt