Question about Corps Expéditionnaire Français en Extrême-Orient, French Indochina.

[scJazz]

Originally Posted by Palle

scJAZZ, there is a typo involved there. Vien Yen and Tien Yen is the same place, but the battle raged from the 13th Jan 1951 to the 18th Jan 1951 (IIRC it was the 18th, but in reality it was over with the massacre on the 16th). Napalm was used before, but only late in 1950 and only in small quantities.
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I don't know if it is a typo or one of the immortal transliterating Asian languages into roman alphabets things. But the repeated data shows 22/12/1950 as the first uses of napalm and nothing at all refutes that from what I found. However a napalm bomb is a bomb like any other bomb and every aircraft mentioned could have tossed one. I'd tend to the December '50 date for certainty. Every source I've seen repeatedly mentions that date for the FIRST use.

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