Highlands Computer Technologies

Napalm Factory

Heard there was such a facility in Long Valley or Washington Township. Anyone know where it is located?

VV
January 7, 2008 12:46 pm · Link


Look here:

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.n...ab!OpenDocument

"The site, near the intersection of Fairmount Road and Parker Road, was operated by United Wallpaper Factories Incorporated for the manufacture of incendiary bombs during World War II."

GC
January 11, 2008 3:39 pm · Link


the article says "little valley"...guess they got it wrong...

V
January 12, 2008 9:16 am · Link


The most devastating conventional bomb used by the Americans, however, was the M-69 incendiary cluster. The first Boeing B-29 raids against the Japanese mainland were performed in the fall of 1944, using high altitude daylight precision bombing with high explosive bombs. For various reasons, this strategy proved ineffective, and in the spring of 1945 the Army Air Force moved to low level incendiary bombing at night.

The M-69 firebomb had been developed earlier in the war and proved ideal for the task. The M-69 was a simple, clever weapon. It looked like a length of pipe, and weighed only 2.3 kilograms (6.2 pounds). As handling such a small weapon was inconvenient, and dropping quantities of small bombs from high altitude was wildly inaccurate, it was designed to be incorporated into an "aimable cluster", a type of finned cluster bomb that contained 38 of the M-69 firebombs.

VV
January 16, 2008 5:04 pm · Link


I think everybody knows this by now but . . . Parker Road is a designated federal Superfund site.

hch
January 17, 2008 7:54 pm · Link


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