We were gonig to drop bats on japan?

[Dragon]

  They were going to make an island sized aircraft carrier with an on board reefer plant

Would have needed more than one plant to keep all the men happy ya know.   

[Vudu15]

Thats pretty cool Greebo 

[Skyguns MKII]

It went terribly wrong when they escaped and caused a huge fire.

[F22RaptorDude]

I remember this, it was thought that the bats would find dark places during the day and since alot of the japanese houses was made of wood it would burn better.

[Rob52240]

I saw that.  Too bad people back then thought that pigeons were too stupid to be trusted with guided bombs.

[Angus]

The bat plan was scrapped because it worked too good. But in my memory, the burning incident happened in the UK. Anyone?

[Muzzy]

About the Ice Carrier: the ricocchet bullet actually grazed Admiral Ernest King in the leg.  Churchill and Roosevelt were also in attendance.  I expect the scene resembled the ending of this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nTmIL_gb4s

The plan was scrapped when someone realized that it would take about as much steel to build the Ice Carrier as it would to build a regular one.

[Shuffler]

The bat story is not much different than japan sending those dang ballons. Except the japs actually did try it. Due to the media hush in th US the japs thought it was not working.

[AWwrgwy]

The bat plan was scrapped because it worked too good. But in my memory, the burning incident happened in the UK. Anyone?

The bat plan was scrapped because the atom bomb.

The hanger fire was in New Mexico, I believe.

Mexican Freetail bats. The same bats that live under the Congress Avenue Bridge in downtown Austin.



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[KgB]

Actually, Stalin killed more Russians during the great patriotic war than Hitler did.

He killed more than 30 million?

[mbailey]

Probably the most innovative concept for incinerating Japan was the Bat Bomb.Lytle Adams, a Pennsylvania Dentist, had been impressed with bats he saw in New Mexico caverns and wrote to President Roosevelt in January 1942. Since bats can carry more than their own weight, Dr.Adams opined that small incendiary devices could be attached to hoards of the flying rodents, which, when released in cluster bombs over Japanese cities, would roost in rafters until the weapons ignited. Though promising, the project was cancelled when some armed bats escaped at an Army airfield in New Mexico and burned the test facility to the ground.

 *exerpt from Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 By Barrett Tillman

[dedalos]

Probably the most innovative concept for incinerating Japan was the Bat Bomb.Lytle Adams, a Pennsylvania Dentist, had been impressed with bats he saw in New Mexico caverns and wrote to President Roosevelt in January 1942. Since bats can carry more than their own weight, Dr.Adams opined that small incendiary devices could be attached to hoards of the flying rodents, which, when released in cluster bombs over Japanese cities, would roost in rafters until the weapons ignited. Though promising, the project was cancelled when some armed bats escaped at an Army airfield in New Mexico and burned the test facility to the ground.

 *exerpt from Whirlwind: The Air War Against Japan, 1942-1945 By Barrett Tillman

  so they scrapped the plan because they realized it actually worked? 

[mbailey]

so they scrapped the plan because they realized it actually worked? 

Appears so