16-367 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Marines watch F4U Corsairs drop napalm on Chinese positions.

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[browningautorifle]

Always entertaining to have an impromptu air show in the field. I always loved them. Saw some good ones too...

[Paul S.]

Always entertaining to have an impromptu air show in the field. I always loved them. Saw some good ones too...

I'll second that. I remember a couple in particular from 1968 that were pretty impressive to a young man in a tropical environ.

[Flying10uk]

Does the U.S. airforce still train in the use of Napalm?

[CINDERS]

NAPALM ~ They probably have better ways to bring the demise of the enemy than that like fuel/air bombs or just an A-10, after that Vietnam war picture of that young girl running with shreds of skin hanging off her after a Napalm strike I think the attitude started to gain momentum to stop it. In fact I think she actully resides in the United States now having seen a doco on her many years ago. Besides the public outcry from the do gooders if the gear was put back into action would be horrendous.

[Csm Davis]

Does the U.S. airforce still train in the use of Napalm?

No all napalm should be distilled back to its original components by now, it was being disposed of in the late 80's early 90's when I was in service on the west coast.

[Flying10uk]

Ref Post 5, I think that it is probably worth pointing out, and I believe that I am correct in this but stand to be corrected, that the well known Napalm strike during the Vietnam war in which the young girl was badly injured was actually carried out by the South Vietnamese Airforce and not the U.S. Airforce. The U.S. Airforce often seems to have been incorrectly blamed for this unfortunate incident.

[Mark in Rochester]

NAPALM ~ They probably have better ways to bring the demise of the enemy than that like fuel/air bombs or just an A-10, after that Vietnam war picture of that young girl running with shreds of skin hanging off her after a Napalm strike I think the attitude started to gain momentum to stop it. In fact I think she actully resides in the United States now having seen a doco on her many years ago. Besides the public outcry from the do gooders if the gear was put back into action would be horrendous.

Phan Thị Kim Phúc OOnt (Vietnamese pronunciation: [faːŋ tʰɪ̂ˀ kim fúk͡p̚]; born April 2, 1963), referred to informally as the Napalm girl, is a Vietnamese-Canadian best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The well known photo, taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut, shows her at nine years of age running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack


Born
Phan Thị Kim Phúc
April 2, 1963 (age 53)
Trang Bang, South Vietnam

Residence Ajax, Ontario

Nationality Canadian

Other names Kim Phúc

Citizenship Canadian

Alma mater University of Havana, Cuba

Occupation
Author, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

Known for Being "The Girl in the Picture" (Vietnam War)

Religion Christianity

Spouse(s) Bui Huy Toan

Children Two

Awards Order of Ontario


Napalm - International law

International law does not specifically prohibit the use of napalm or other incendiaries against military targets,[20] but use against civilian populations was banned by the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in 1980. Protocol III of the CCW restricts the use of all incendiary weapons, but a number of countries have not acceded to all of the protocols of the CCW. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), countries are considered a party to the convention, which entered into force as international law in December 1983, as long as they ratify at least two of the five protocols. Approximately 25 years after the General Assembly adopted it, the United States signed it on January 21, 2009, President Barack Obama's first full day in office. Its ratification, however, is subject to a reservation that says that the treaty can be ignored if it would save civilian lives.