Bat bombs were an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States. The bomb consisted of a bomb-shaped casing with over a thousand compartments, each containing a hibernating Mexican free-tailed bat with a small, timed incendiary bomb attached.

2024年12月20日 · A Pennsylvania dentist thought a “bat bomb," with 1,000 bats starting fires, would end the war faster than the atomic bomb.

During World War II, a quirky inventor proposed that one million bats be gathered from caves in Texas, strapped with napalm incendiaries, and packed 1,000 at a time into cluster-like bombs.

A secret government project envisioned cooling captured bats into a sleep-like state, dropping them from an airplane over Japan and relying on their tendency to roost in dark spaces to deliver incendiary bombs to the wooden structures that made up most of Japan’s homes and offices.

2015年8月10日 · For most of World War II, the United States military was seriously developing a plan that would have unleashed thousands of firebomb-armed bats from planes above Japanese cities.

2021年7月22日 · Dropped from a bomber, the bat bomb would fall to 4,000 feet altitude before deploying its parachute. As the bat bomb fluttered to Earth, the sides would open, allowing the bats to escape and disperse.

2025年3月13日 · Over 1,000 bats would go into each bomb, with bats collected here locally and near Carlsbad, New Mexico. The bats were chilled to fall asleep and placed inside the bomb.

2011年4月14日 · Less than a month later, on January 12, 1942, he sent the White House his plan: We could demolish Japanese cities by strapping tiny incendiary bombs to bats, which they would carry into the...

2024年10月11日 · Discover the bizarre WWII bat bombs project, led by dentist Lytle Adams, where bats were equipped with incendiary bombs to burn enemy cities. Learn how this wild war experiment unfolded.

2021年10月21日 · Of all the weird experimental weapons conceived and tested during WWII, bat bombs were one of the strangest. The project attempted to attach small bombs to bats and drop them over Japanese cities, which were constructed mostly from wood at the time.