Bat Bomb: World War II's Other Secret Weapon by Jack Couffer.

[Captain Hilts]

Two months after Pearl Harbor, Eleanor Roosevelt gets a letter about dropping bats with incendiary devices under their wings, on Tokyo. She looks at it and thinks, "Hmmm...it's a CRAZY idea, but it just might work." She passes the letter onto FDR who reads it and thinks "Hmmm...it's a CRAZY idea, but it just might work." He then writes on the margin "this man is not a nut," and off it goes to the War Department. The rest is the history related here.

It's a MUST for anyone interested in how government operates. GREAT read!

[Lucinda]

1. Wiki Link

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

[Orrex]

2. Holy Flaming Chiroptera, Batman

I never heard of this before. Wild!

[Captain Hilts]

3. Well..check it out on amazon.

ER: It's a crazy idea, but it just might work.
FDR: This man is not a nut. It's a crazy idea, but it just might work.
ER: We'd try anything so long as it didn't draw blood or leave marks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Look ! in the far right background...it's Larry Craig !!

[Captain Hilts]

5. Good one! Gannon/McClellan must have gotten him the uniform and access to the grounds. nt

[pam4water]

6. Na na na na na na Bat Boom! Sorry had to do it. That was really cutting edge technology for those

days. Bomb timers and automatic parachutes just weren't that reliable in the those days. I never heard of this. I heard of Japan late in the war putting bombs on balloons and just letting the wind carry them across the ocean. A few did actually make it to California. Bit did not do any major damage.

[Captain Hilts]

8. One of those balloon bombs actually got to Los Alamos, I was recently told...

but the damage they did was deliberately not disclosed so as to avoid panic.

[pscot]

7. The story is told that Ghengis Khan

was besieging a chinese city that refused his terms. He sent word into the city that if the inhabitants would send him a thousand cats and a thousand sparrows, he would end his siege. They complied. The khan then ordered flammable bundles tied toall the cats and sparrows. The creatures were set alight next to the city walls. Fleeing the flames, they sought their homesand nests. The city burned. PETA would certainly have disapproved.