Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

February 7, 2023

The Napalm Burn Pit at Fallon


                F/A-18A Hornet armed with 77 napalm bombs NAS Fallon, Nevada in June 1993

The Napalm Burn Pit at Fallon

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
Feb. 7, 2023

FALLON PAIUTE-SHOSHONE LAND -- The Navy Seals burned Napalm in burn pits at the Naval Air Station Fallon. The facts are buried in the investigations surrounding a cluster of childhood leukemia in Fallon in central Nevada. The facts are revealed now because a new database exposes another fact: The Navy bombing range has four Native remains that have not been repatriated, as required by law.\

"Burning was accomplished by placing napalm canisters in the pit where they were axed open, saturated with diesel fuel and ignited." The Napalm burn pits were used at Fallon from 1963 until the 1980s.

The report for remediation from Oak Ridge describes the Napalm burn pit at Fallon: