Nothing against dentists but it seems odd that a dentist invented the electric chair and bat bombs were also the brain storm of a dentist. After Pearl Harbor was attacked causing the US to enter the war a dentist came up with a plan to strap small bombs with timers to bats then release them in Japanese cities where they would go into buildings to roost. The army captured thousands of bats to test,they put them into ice cube trays to cause them to hibernate while they were shipped overseas. During testing the stealthy bats were so successful on their missions that a few escaped and blew up a fuel tanker,air hangar and a general's car. Fortunately for the bats they were never deployed because the money earmarked for their project got hijacked by the Manhattan Project.
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