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00:00What if I told you bats could have changed the course of World War II?
00:03Let's get into the bizarre tale of the bat bomb.
00:06In the 1940s, the U.S. military had a wild idea.
00:09Use bats as bomb carriers.
00:12The plan? Attach tiny incendiary bombs to bats.
00:15Release them over Japanese cities at dawn.
00:17These bats would find cozy spots in attics and under eaves.
00:21As daylight hit, timers on the bombs would tick down and boom.
00:24Whole blocks could go up in flames.
00:27Sounds like a movie, right?
00:28But this actually happened.
00:29The project even got as far as testing.
00:32But as you can guess, there were problems.
00:34Like the time-escaped bat bombers set a military base on fire instead.
00:38Before things could go too far, the atomic bomb made the bat bomb obsolete.
00:42War strategies, huh?
00:44Follow for more wild history.
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