The Incendiary Bat
The secret plan to burn Japan with flying bombs
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The explosive true story of how the US military tried to turn thousands of bats into living napalm bombers during WWII.
"The Incendiary Bat – The secret plan to burn Japan with flying bombs" uncovers Project X-Ray, one of the wildest military experiments of World War II. After Pearl Harbor, a dentist named Lytle S. Adams convinced President Roosevelt that bats—which can carry more than their body weight and roost in eaves—could be used to deliver tiny napalm bombs to the wooden cities of Japan.
Historian Brandon Flint details the bizarre testing process. The US military captured thousands of Mexican Free-tailed Bats, strapped mini-bombs to them, and accidentally burned down their own testing base when the bats escaped. Despite the chaos, the project was approved and millions were spent before it was canceled in favor of the atomic bomb.
"The Incendiary Bat" is a story of ingenuity bordering on madness. It illustrates the desperate "throw everything at the wall" mentality of wartime innovation, where even a dentist's idea about exploding rodents could become top-secret government policy.
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Brandon Flint
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Themen in »The Incendiary Bat«
Bat Bomb Project X-Ray Lytle S. Adams WWII Military History Weird Science Animals in War