Photos Holy Flaming Bats!

[Guest]

The idea here was to drop bombs with chilled bats in them.
Strapped on the backs of the bats were to be timed incendiary bombs.

When the bats awoke from the hibernating state they were to seek places to hang out beneath the enemy city's infrastructure. Once in place, they would be detonated and set the city ablaze.

 

[Firemarshall27]

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Thats funny and CRAZY! Who comes up with this stuff?

 

[Chiller]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: firemarshall27</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thats funny and CRAZY! Who comes up with this stuff? </div></div>

That was straight out of WW II

 

[GracieSymon]

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During WW II the OSS and other agencies devised and implemented many non-standard tactics to advance the war effort. I had never heard of the bat bomb but another effort of that nature was Operation Not Me. This tactic played upon the fastidious nature of the Japanese and their abhorrence of malodorous body smells. The way it worked was small aerosol cans filed with scatol, indol and hydrogen sulfide, the active ingredients in a fart, were provided to local indigenous personal fighting the Japanese. These individuals were supposed to surreptitiously spray Japanese soldiers with this mixture. The hope was that this would cause the sprayed soldier such embarrassment, that is would disrupt unit cohesion.

 

[EddieP]

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There was also a plan to have missiles guided by pigeons.

 

[RobertB]

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The pigeon missile is true. They would see a picture on a small screen and peck at it to guide the missile. I belive there were other variants of it too.

 

[Guest]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon