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Uncle Sam Tried to End World War II With Bat Bombs

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:37:33
Publish Date: 2019-01-08 11:39:22
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It sounds like something straight out of the cave beneath Bruce Wayne's Manor, but thanks to the passion of a part-time inventor named Lytle Adams, the United States military really did spend millions attempting to arm bats with incendiary devices and launch them -- real-life bat bombs -- across Japanese cities. Here's the weird thing: It could have actually worked.

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