Incendiary Weapons

Davis, M. “Berlin’s Skeleton in Utah’s Closet.” In Dead Cities and Other Tales, 64–83. New York: New Press, 2002. On the building and burning of model German and Japanese homes in Utah to test the effectiveness of incendiaries.

Mike Davis, Berlin's Skeleton in Utah's Closet

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Mountcastle, John Wyndham. Trial by Fire: U.S. Incendiary Weapons 1918-1945. Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of History, Duke University, 1979.

Mountcastle, Trial by Fire - U.S. Incendiary Weapons 1918-19

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Fisher, George J. B. Incendiary Warfare. New York and London: McGraw-Hill, 1946.

George Fisher, Incendiary Warfare, 1946sm

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Fieser, Louis F. The Scientific Method – A Personal Account of Unusual Projects in War and in Peace. Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1964. Autobiography of a chemist who contributed to the making of napalm during World War II.

Fieser - 1964 - The Scientific Method
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Louis F. Fieser, George C. Harris, E. B. Hershberg, Motley Morgana, Frederick C. Novello, and Stearns T. Putnam. “Napalm.” Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 38 (1946): 768–73.

Napalm, Louis Fieser

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Office of Scientific Research and Development and National Defense Research Committee. 1946. Summary Technical Report of Division 11, NDRC, Volume 3, Fire Warfare: Incendiaries and Flame Throwers. Washington D.C.

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Study of Incendiary Bombings for Employment by the United States Army Air Forces, 1 October 1944. Source: NARA M1655,Roll40

Study-of-Incendiary-Bombings-for-Employment-by-the-United-States-Army-Air-Forces-1-October-1944-NARA-M1655-Roll40-1o-43,sm

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Mark Wilson. “Making ‘Goop’ out of Lemons: The Permanente Metals Corporation, Magnesium Incendiary Bombs, and the Struggle for Profits During World War II. Analysis of the development and use of magnesium incendiary bombs, which were used as part of a large-scale incendiary bombing raid on Tokyo, May 25-26, 1945.

Making Goop out of Lemons

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Standard Oil, Design and Construction of Typical German and Japanese Test Structures.

「焼夷弾開発実験用ドイツ式・日本式建物の建設について」、スタンダード・オイル社。

Standard-Oil-Design-and-Construction-of-Typical-German-and-Japanese-Test-Structures

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Three chapters from Chemistry: A History of the Chemistry Components of the National Defense Research Committee 1940-1946 related to the establishment of the National Defense Research Committee and the development of incendiary weapons. This is a public domain document.

Noyes Jr., W.A. “Forward and Introduction.” Chemistry: A History of the Chemistry Components of the National Defense Research Committee 1940-1946. Ed. W.A. Noyes Jr. Science in World War Ii. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948.

Stevenson, E.P. “Incendiary Bombs.” Chemistry: A History of the Chemistry Components of the National Defense Research Committee 1940-1946. Ed. W.A. Noyes Jr. Science in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. 388-409.

Stevenson, E.P. “Incendiary Fuels.” Chemistry: A History of the Chemistry Components of the National Defense Research Committee 1940-1946. Ed. W.A. Noyes Jr. Science in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. 410-19.

「科学:国防の研究委員会の科学研究・1940年ー1946年」より3章。

    • 「序文と前書」
    • 「焼夷弾」
    • 「焼夷燃料」
Noyes-Chemistry

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United States Army in World War II, The Technical Services, The Chemical Warfare Service: From Laboratory to Field, Chapter VIII – Incendiaries. Publisher: Office of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, Washington, D.C. 1959

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Selections From Guido Perera Autobiography

「グイド・ペレーラ自伝」、(抜粋)。

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From Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s Incendiary Weapons, Cambridge, Mass.:MIT Press, 1975. Posted with permission by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

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