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On 4 July 1942, the first test occurred on the football field near the Harvard Business School.<ref name="Lindqvist 2001 105"/> Tests under operational conditions were carried out at [[Jefferson Proving Ground]] on condemned farm buildings, and subsequently at [[Dugway Proving Ground]] on buildings designed and constructed to represent those to be found in German and Japanese towns.<ref name=Noyes>{{cite book|last=Noyes|first=W.A. Jr. (ed.)|title=Science in World War II: Chemistry|year=1948|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|location=Boston|pages=392, 393}}</ref><ref name=Ithaca>{{Cite web|title=An Ithaca of sorts|url=http://www.aggregat456.com/2010/06/ithaca-of-sorts.html|date=29 June 2010|accessdate=26 December 2012}}</ref> This new mixture of chemicals was widely used in the Second World War in [[incendiary bomb]]s and in [[flamethrower]]s.
From 1965 to 1969, the [[Dow Chemical Company]] manufactured napalm B for the American armed forces.<ref name="GlobalSecurity">{{cite web|title=Napalm in War|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/napalm-war.htm|work=GlobalSecurity.org|accessdate=8 May 2013}}</ref> After news reports of napalm B's deadly and disfiguring effects were published, Dow Chemical experienced [[boycott]]s of its products, and its recruiters for new chemists, [[chemical engineering|chemical engineer]]s, etc., graduating from college were subject to campus boycotts. The management of the company decided that its "first obligation was the government." Meanwhile, napalm B became a symbol for the Vietnam War.<ref>[http://www2.vcdh.Virginia.edu/PVCC/mbase/docs/napalm.html Napalm]. vcdh.virginia.edu. Retrieved on 2010-02-11.</ref>
== Military use ==
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