13 - Bat Bombs

America The Bizarre

English - January 02, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 34.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
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We discuss Dr. Lytle S. Adams, a dentist and part-time inventor that was inspired by his New Mexico vacation to use bats in his revenge plot against Japan for Pearl Harbor.

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Sources:

“Bat Bomb: World War II’s Other Secret Weapon” by Jack Couffer

“Old, Weird Tech: The Bat Bombs of World War II” by Alexis C. Madrigal

“’Bat Bombs’: WWII’s Project X-Ray” by Allan T. Duffin

“The Bat Bombers” by C.V. Glines

“A Batman to the Rescue” by Dr. Patrick Drumm and Christopher Ovre

“Bats and Balloon Bombs: The Weird Weapons That Could Have Won WWII” by Danny Lewis

“Pearl Harbor Bombed” a History.com article

“May 5, 1945: Japanese Balloon Bomb Kills 6 in Oregon” by David Kravets