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Would it have been possible for the World War 2 Allies to have a napalm filled naval artillery shell?

Napalm is jellied gasoline. I should think the shock of firing a shell filled with it from artillery would be extremely dangerous and liable to detonate this unstable substance. Napalm was a mid to late WWII invention, so there would have been little time to develop such ammunition. It would take a large caliber piece of naval artillery to hold enough napalm to do any good, and I expect even a 16" battleship shell would hold less than the smaller canisters dropped by aircraft. White phosphorous shells were used to start fires. The phosphorous was sealed in the shell and scattered by its bursting. Phosphorous begins to burn when exposed to the atmosphere, and will keep burning until it no longer has a source of oxygen.


What are negative effects of visible light?

It could blind you, sunwise burn you or give you cancer


When did Ben Franklin improve the street light?

He improved it so it could burn brightly all night long.


What is the Scortched Earth Policy?

the scortched earth policy is where when an army retreats, they burn everything as they go by, so the enemy has no food or shelter to use when they get there.The scorched earth policy is a military strategy or operational method which involves destroying anything useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an a battle area or places in the enemy's country. The Allied Forces used this method against the Japanese and Germany in order to motivate the citizens to beg for the war to end and to destroy military installations and war plants. In Tokyo, during World War 2, on one night the Allied Forces burned 16 square miles of Tokyo. They bombed with napalm and conventional bombs night after night. Nearly every city had been burned.This policy is still in use but napalm bombs are no longer used in this strategy.


Why did general sherman destroy much of georgia during his march to the sea?

To wreck the railroads in order to ruin the Southern economy, and to burn the farms in order to starve the Confederate troops in the field.

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