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That actually does sound more like phosphorous than napalm. WP apparently burns flesh better than clothing, I would imagine due to the water content. In the famous photo of that Vietnamese girl running from a napalm strike, her clothes were the _first_ thing to burn.

I can't seem to find my standard reference book on the subject (Incendiary Weapons, MIT Press, 1975) among all the boxes I have yet to sort and shelve. That'd have answers on typical patterns of injury from different weapons.

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