Carpet bombing
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Carpet bombing, also known as "saturation bombing" and "obliteration bombing", is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land. Carp
The first carpet bombing from air in history was the Bombing of Barcelona. 1,300 people were killed in 3 days, 16–18 March 1938
On 14 May 1940 at 1:22 pm, in the Rotterdam Blitz, German bombers set the entire inner city on fire with incendiary bombs, killing 814 inhabitants
Wesel was 97% destroyed before it was finally taken by Allied troops in 1945
Photo of bombing of Waegwan, 1950
Napalm
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Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical. The name is a portmanteau of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: coprecipitated alum
Carpet bombing
…destroyed 85 percent of North Korea's buildings and 95 percent of its power generation. Conventional weapons such as explosives, incendiary bombs and napalm destroyed nearly all of Korea's cities and towns. By the end of the war, 18 of the 22 major cities in North Korea had been at least half obliterated…
Results of a napalm strike by the United States Army Air Force on a Japanese outpost off the coast of the island of Borneo
A "Zippo" riverboat of the US Brown-water navy firing an ignited napalm mixture from a riverboat-mounted flamethrower in Vietnam
Phan Thi Kim Phuc, burned with napalm at the age of 9 during the Vietnam War (1972)