The CBU-24, MK 20 Rockeye, and Napalm-B all dominated the battlefields of the Vietnam War—likely saving American lives in combat, but creating misery for Vietnamese civilians and fueling anti-war ...

The CBU-24, a key cluster bomb during the Vietnam War era, was an unguided dispenser releasing up to 665 BLU-24/B bomblets—small, roughly baseball-sized explosives filled with steel fragments.