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Napalm was first dropped from airplanes during WWII. Typically, old drop tanks were filled up with napalm and used on fighters. P-38's and P-47's rained jellied fire on German positions in Europe and all over Japan, normally with 165gal. tanks. In fact, part of the firestorm at Dresden and the one at Tokyo were caused by napalm. It was also used in heavy bombers. Some B-17's, for example, were equipped with what's known as Class C Fire Bombs. Basically, they were old 108gal. paper tanks filled up with napalm. They were often overfilled which led to spills while in flight at high altitudes and poor efectiveness once dropped which is why they were only a Class C. Naplam was then used in Korea and was dropped from F-51's, F-80's, F-84's, F-86's, B-26's, F4U's, and F9F's. The Air Force started with old 50gal. drop tanks again, except this time they were painted yellow to distinguish them from fuel tanks. Later, plastic tanks replaced the metal ones and started in 100gal. varieties and then went to 90gal. volume. Naplam is an icon of Vietnam; however, it wasn't actual napalm that was used in Vietnam. It was Napalm-B, a substance similar to traditional napalm.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/s...napalm.htm

Oh yeah, "fireworks" were actually used in WWII, although a more common name was flak.