Subject: #1 Jet of World War II
From: "Geoffrey Sinclair"
Date: 7/21/03 10:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time

No, none of the 9 diagrams showing different bomb bay load
configurations includes one for napalm, not even incendiaries
are shown, just HE and AP bombs.

I presume the napalm is listed under class C-Fire in the USAAF
statistical digest, 12,200 used, they came in 50, 75, 100 to 110
and 150 to 165 gallon sizes.

Geoffrey Sinclair
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I remember the morning we flew that Nepalm mission. They scared the **** out
of us.We never heard of jellied gasoline and we were instructed that it was a
very dangerous load and under no circuimstances were we to bring it back. If it
hung up in the bombays and we couldn't salvo it, we were to bail out rather
than try to land with it. Felt good to get the green bombay light at bombs
away, feel Willie lift, and get Griego's report that the bombay was clear...
and home we went to Florennes. Never so glad to get rid of a bomb load in my
life.




Arthur Kramer
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