Bat Bombs- The American Plan to Beat Japan

As the Pacific war waged on bombing runs had begun on Japan. They were costly and caused severe devastation to both civilians and military personnel. This led a friend of Elanor Roselvelt named Lytle Adams. Lytle Adams was considered by many to be outside of the box thinker and told Elanor Rosevelt about an Idea he had. He believed that if you could attach a timed fire grenade to bats and release them at night the bats would naturally disperse into small cracks and holes in houses and then cause thousands of independent fires. When President Roosevelt found out he was interested and approved the project for military testing.

This project was considered extremely important and was treated very seriously, new bombs were developed along with modifications on planes to make them as effective as possible. The Project was named Project X-ray and was moved to a Marine Core base for testing. The test was incredibly successful starting hundreds of independent random fires. At this point, however Project X-ray was directly competing with the Manhattan project.

As the year reached 1945 the Navy decided to cancel project Xray due to its expensive nature and the fact that it was still in development while the Atomic bombs were closer to completion and had the added bonus of shock and awe.