Fire bombs improvised

A fire bomb was simply a large capacity container filled in the field with napalm gel. It began as a field improvisation. Fighter planes carried jettisonable fuel tanks for long missions, and it became customary for the pilots, on the trip homeward, to drop these tanks on targets... 

Ui0 Vnivsrsal Destmcior. ihe destructor is used to convert loaded projectUee, missiles, and bombs Into improvised chargee. The destructor has booster caps contaiziing tetryl pel lets. All standard firing devices with the standard base coupler screw into the top. 

In 1916 the British introduced a new means of projecting gas, the 4-inch Stokes mortar, developed from the 3-inch version of this weapon, which had been the standard mortar in the British Army. Because of their inability to manufacture gas shells, the British first used the mortar to fire improvised smokes and incendiaries. The Stokes gas shell, or bomb, as the British called it, contained six pounds of agent as compared to three pounds for the British 4.5-inch heavy howitzer shell. 

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