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=== Others === During the [[Greek Civil War]], after the capture of [[Mount Vitsi]] during [[Operation Pyrsos]], the [[Hellenic Air Force]] bombed [[Mount Grammos]]—a stronghold for the opposing [[Democratic Army of Greece]]—with US-supplied napalm.<ref>{{Cite book |last=House |first=Jonathan M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T5lxAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT70 |title=A Military History of the Cold War, 1944–1962 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-8061-4690-4 |page=70 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Featherstone |first1=Kevin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UCKBDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA211 |title=The Last Ottomans: The Muslim Minority of Greece, 1940–49 |last2=Papadimitriou |first2=Dimitris |last3=Mamarelis |first3=Argyris |last4=Niarchos |first4=Georgios |date=2011 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |isbn=978-0-230-29465-3 |page=211 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> The [[French Air Force]] regularly used napalm for close air support of ground operations in both the [[First Indochina War]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fall |first=Bernard B. |author-link=Bernard B. Fall |url=https://archive.org/details/StreetWithoutJoy |title=Street Without Joy |date=1961 |publisher=Stackpole Books |location=Harrisburg |pages=34–37, 197 |oclc=1020224769 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Grant |first=Rebecca |date=August 2004 |title=Dien Bien Phu |url=https://www.airandspaceforces.com/app/uploads/2004/08/0804_August2004.pdf |access-date=2024-11-27 |magazine=Air Force Magazine |pages=78–86 |volume=87 |issue=8}}</ref> and the [[Algerian War]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Stora |first=Benjamin |author-link=Benjamin Stora |date=October 2007 |title=Avoir 20 ans en Kabylie |trans-title=Being 20 years old in Kabylie |url=https://www.lhistoire.fr/avoir-20-ans-en-kabylie |access-date=2024-11-27 |magazine=L'Histoire |pages=28–29 |language=fr |issue=324}}</ref><ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Kellou |first=Dorothee M. |title=A Microhistory of the Forced Resettlement of the Algerian Muslim Population During the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962): Mansourah, Kabylia |date=2012-04-18 |access-date=2024-11-27 |degree=MA |publisher=Georgetown University |url=https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/557506/Kellou_georgetown_0076M_11824.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y}}</ref> At first, the canisters were simply pushed out the cargo doors of transport planes, such as the [[Amiot AAC.1]];<ref>{{Cite web |last=Forsgren |first=Jan |date=2022-02-07 |title=Cold War History: French Ju 52s |url=https://www.key.aero/article/cold-war-history-french-ju-52s |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Key Aero}}</ref> later mostly [[Douglas A-26 Invader|B-26]] bombers were used.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} Peruvian forces employed napalm throughout the 1960s against both communist insurgents and the [[Matsés]] indigenous group; four prominent Matsés villages were bombed during the [[:es:Masacre_a_comunidades_matsés_de_1964_(Perú)|1964 Matsés massacres]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Colby |first1=Gerard |author-link1=Gerard Colby |url=https://archive.org/details/ConquestOfTheAmazon |title=Thy Will Be Done – The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil |last2=Dennett |first2=Charlotte |date=1995 |publisher=HarperPerennial |isbn=978-0-06-016764-6 |location=New York |page=466, 491-493 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> From 1968–1978, [[Rhodesia]] produced a variant of napalm for use in the [[Rhodesian Bush War]],<ref name="Fireforce">{{Cite book |last= |first= |title=Fireforce Exposed: Rhodesian Security Forces and Their Role in Defending White Supremacy |publisher=The Anti-Apartheid Movement |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-900065-04-0 |location=London |pages=39–40}}</ref> nicknamed ''Frantan'' (short for "frangible tank").<ref>{{cite book |last=Petter-Bowyer |first=P.J.H |title=Winds of Destruction: the Autobiography of a Rhodesian Combat Pilot |publisher=30° South Publishers |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-9584890-3-4 |edition=2nd |location=Johannesburg}}</ref> Around the same time, its ally [[South Africa]] targeted guerrilla bases in [[Angola]] with napalm during the [[South African Border War]].<ref name="Nortje">{{cite book |last=Nortje |first=Piet |title=32 Battalion: The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit |publisher=Zebra Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-86872-914-2 |location=New York |page=158}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Baines |first=Gary |year=2012 |title=Vietnam Analogies and Metaphors: The Cultural Codification of South Africa's Border War |journal=Safundi |volume=12 |issue=1–2 |pages=73–90 |doi=10.1080/17533171.2011.642591}}</ref> In 2018, Turkey was accused of using napalm in [[Operation Olive Branch]] against Kurdish nationalist groups.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dettmer |first=Jamie |date=2018-01-28 |title=Kurds Accuse Turks of Dropping Napalm |url=https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/kurds-accuse-turks-dropping-napalm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925211954/https://www.voanews.com/middle-east/kurds-accuse-turks-dropping-napalm/ |archive-date=25 September 2020 |access-date=8 August 2020 |website=Voice of America}}</ref>
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