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Napalm The 1940's - Mixing Sticky Fire
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keywords: wwii, pacific theater, napalm, sticky fire, incendiary bombs, boeing b-29 superfortress bomber
Synopsis: Early development, fabrication, assembly and testing of single and salvo napalm bomb drops from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomber...(read more)
- Date: 1945
- Duration: 00:06:54
- Sound: No
- Color: Color
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Pacific Theater
Napalm: The 1940's - Mixing Sticky Fire
Scenes of the early development fabrication, final assembly and testing of single and salvo napalm bomb drops from a B-29.
Scenes of charged drums being loaded into truck at the manufactining plant and offloaded at bomb dump -- includes MS's and MCU of stacked rows of bombs.
Series of pan shots showing discarded 55-gal. drums piled in clearing and at end of manufacturing plant.
Scenes of AAF personnel preparing napalm mixture -- shows hand dipping into bucket of dry napalm mixture, pouring bucket of mix into gasoline-filled drums, napalm and gasoline being mixed by compressed air which is agitated by stirring with rod nozzle inserted into the drum, red jelly mass dropping onto piece of plywood, attaching plywood tail fins to bomb, inspecting and loading bombs into B-29 bomb bay -- intercut with MCU of white phosphorous fuse attached to tail fin.
MS's of completed napalm bomb.
AV's of napalm drop from 1,000 feet and salvo of five bombs being dropped from 5,0O0 feet as seen from bomb bay of aircraft.
