re: #747 SanFranciscoZionist

This is a ridiculously terrible thing to bring up in the context of this whole discussion, but there was a guy who brought an idea to the Army during the war that involved dropping bats with bombs strapped to them over Japan. The idea was that the bats would take shelter in buildings, and then detonate.

The Army was nuts enough to give this a try. The problem turned to be that bats lose their wings if you drop them out of a flying plane.

It was tried and it worked on an experimental basis. There was another reason that it wasn’t used in combat, but I just can’t remember it right now. It might have something to do with some of the bats flying away from the mock village and flying onto a nearby base. The Army may have feared some incindiery bats getting loose on Tinian. BTW the bats were encased in canisters that opened before hitting the ground.