@youthpastorryan: Thanks to the National Museum of the Pacific War for letting me rummage around the incredible history they have! Here’s one of the more crazy experiments during WW2! Also correction, it was based in CA for a bit but it was Carlsbad New Mexico where the bats set a U.S. general’s car and ATC control tower on fire. Enjoy some weird history!

Sousaphonist :

bat 💣s, pigeon-guided 🚀s, that evesdropping cat thing from the Cold War...any other animal-fueled wartime shenanigans the US got up to?

Scott Dow :

the fat electrician and HLC need to bring you along on their next museum visit video

KronusAJD :

me wondering how the allied forces won with ideas like this

ZGeewiz7 :

you left out the best part of it being the first lady's dentist who proposed it

RedbeardInBluegrass :

Interesting idea-

DeadThingsRenewed :

Currently reading this book. Fat Electrician did a video on this.

Spyder Diablo :

they also tried to use birds to steer the bombs

Johnny :

Between this and pigeon guided munitions, WW2 was a very innovative time

Mojoman918 :

The bat bomb was projected to be 12X's more effective than other incendiary bombs. The deadliest bomb in WW2 was a incendiary bomb... They were afraid of how devastating the bomb would've been

jakubsokol22 :

and explosive dogs running under their own tanks and pidgeon controlled rockets... humans were sad that war dont kill huge amount of horses anymore so they adapt I guess😅

WayFastCueNerd :

Fun fact: had the bat-bomb successfully commenced on Japan it was projected to be deadlier than BOTH atomic bombs. Why? Because the bulk of Japanese buildings at the time were built from wood.

Matthew V. Thompson :

Dsnansnanananana BAT BOMB

me13456789 :

Also had the pigeon guided missles

Darth_Rathious :

Japan tried something similar to my state, Oregon, turns out it's hard to start a forest fire when everything is wet 🤣🤣🤣

Evil Lemon :

right now it's Oregon that's on fire 🔥

Ryan Mueller :

no no, you can't skip the good stuff. a generals car was destroyed, another general took over for no reason, and it did basically work kinda

use_a_fork :

ramblingjeny :

danrossi77 :

didn't we try to invent a chicken guided missle

Maiby 🇵🇸 :

The guy who made them is even weirder. He wasn’t a military scientist, he was just a dentist friend of Eleanor Roosevelt with some weird views about bats. He literally thought god made them just to be bombs in WW2

KmdrFarsight :

I’m particularly partial to the spinning wheel of doom. Will it go straight? Will it randomly explode? Will it start spinning with such velocity that it could peel a human from 50ft away? No one knows! It’s a surprise for them and for us! 😂

Shawn B :

I actually just wrote up a novel idea for an alternate history where this was used. It's so quirky lol

Askemoji9 :

anyone asking why it looks like grus car?

Quasar :

Hey so fun fact, there is a children's novel that talks about this from the bat's perspective. Silverwing sceries by Kenneth Oppel.

Madd4HEAs :

You forgot to mention that it was a brand new military base that was burned down because they decided to do these tests (that require the bats to stay cold enough that they stay in torpor, aka, hibernation) in New Mexico, one of the states where the weather is famously really hot 😂😅😂