Napalm

used is the Napalm that is a high explosive bomb in a form of flammable stick jelly used as a flamethrower. The US used Napalm threw Napalm down the Vietnamese village; burn down the forest creating environmental damages to Vietnam. The US also used Napalm to expose the hiding spots of the Vietnamese army. After they dropped the bomb the impact of the high explosive bombs continued after the war ended as many failed to explode on impact and have caused major problems. Not only Napalm the US also

and memory. In Weigl's poem "Song of Napalm", the subject of the poem was inferred to have lived in a farm while reminded of scenes from the war. In Buntz essay, he relates the jungles with the memories of the soldiers as something that they cannot escape from. -JM "The girl / Running from her village, napalm / Stuck to her dress like jelly / Her hands reaching for the no one / Who waits in waves of heat before her" (23-27). This quote in Weigl's " Song of Napalm" describes the atrocities of war witnessed

ruining a beautiful land. This can be seen most obviously in the scene when Lt. Colonel Kilgore orders the jungle surrounding the beach be burned down with a napalm strike, forcing the enemy to retreat further inland, allowing Lance Johnson to surf in safety. It is during this scene Kilgore delivers his most famous line saying “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know one

Nick Ut’s photograph of the Children fleeing Napalm was taken during the Vietnam War on the 8th June 1972 where it appears he captured children fleeing the cloud of smoke that is behind them in photograph creating a more dark and dangerous feeling to the photograph that these children had to experience. All children within the photograph look extremely worried, shown as two are clearly screaming, one of whom is a young girl (Kim Phuc) who is naked. Kim Phuc, centre, is a 9-year-old girl fleeing her

The Navy’s testing included napalm, a mixture of a gelling agent and petroleum or a similar fuel for use as an incendiary device; and depleted uranium, a radioactive strain of uranium with a lower content of a fissile isotope U-235, substances which the Navy originally denied using. In 1999, the Navy admitted that it tested 14 napalm bombs on Vieques in 1993 and that depleted uranium (DU) tipped ammunition was first testing in Vieques

crops and the jungle where the Viet Cong hid. Another U.S manufactured toxin was Napalm. The U.S. military combined Napalm with gasoline in incendiary devices to make flamethrowers that sent flames farther than traditional bombs. Napalm combined with gasoline gave off carbon monoxide when exploded which poisoned the air. “Among the more devastating explosives used in U.S. and South Vietnamese bombing runs was Napalm…” Each side in the Vietnam War had their own distinct advantages. The U.S. military

The Vietnam War – Tactics Various military tactics were by both sides of the Vietnam War, the belligerents used military strategies based primarily around getting a geographical or strategic advantage, such as Booby traps, the Ho Chi Minh Trail and Agent Orange. Booby Traps Booby Traps were a form of anti-personnel device (APD) utilised by the North Vietnamese militia, the Viet Cong against South Vietnamese-allied forces. Traps such as whip traps, punji sticks (pits containing spears that were

The Vietnam War lasted longer, bloodier, and more hostile than any U.S. President or American citizen imagined. Lyndon Johnson faced many other enemies during the war such as the duration, the immense number of deaths, and for the first time in most American’s history, failure. Through deep evaluation of Lyndon B. Johnson’s foreign policies as President during the Vietnam war, failure was a recurring outcome, as he faced military and political difficulties over having complete authority over political

A new vehicle in the war that flies!? The Vietnam war was the first time wide scale tactical deployment of helicopters was used. Helicopters are just one part of all the weapons used in the war. I broke weapons into three main categories, guns, aircraft, and ground vehicles such as tanks. Between theses categories there were many different types of weapons used in the war, some of which are still very popular today. When you think of weapons in the Vietnam war, the first thing you probably think

The Vietnam War which was very important in the history that has shaped the country that we know today.The conflict in Vietnam was very controversial and brought out two different groups ,the doves and the hawks.The United States put troops in Vietnam to try and stop communism and the domino theory.The downside to the involvement was the opposition to the war.Billions of dollars was spent when the congress gave Johnson a blank check.The general public was also mislead by the media and the government