13 - Bat Bombs
Jan 02, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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Episode description
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
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