Originally Posted by
Impiger
As I recall (I was only a nipper so didn't understand) there was a bit of a hullabaloo because at this time the good old Ministry were denying we had napalm in the inventory - it had received a bit of a bad press in SE Asia IIRC. The PC solution was to rename the weapons 'fire bombs' ! Don't think it fooled anyone tho'.
Overall a job well done.
Reading The Bomber Command War Diaries and surprised to find Mosquitos dropping napalm in 44/45.