The Second World War started on September 1, 1939. More than 60 countries took part in the bloody war that ended on September 2, 1945. During the Second World War, the American military had prepared a plan to damage the city of Tokyo to stop the advance of Japan. The plan was to bomb Tokyo.
Little S. was a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt. A man named Adams led the US military to develop a plan to use bats to bomb. Airlift hundreds of thousands of bats into the city of Tokyo. Small bombs are attached to the bats’ bodies that detonate within a certain time. Adams and the US military calculated that at dawn these bats would enter buildings and the like, and that the bombs would explode and destroy Tokyo’s structures and people.
Adams and his colleagues were aware of the fact that most buildings in Tokyo were made of wood instead of concrete. So they calculated that they would be easily destroyed by fire. Donald Griffin, an American professor, gave importance to this project and on his advice, US President Franklin Roosevelt approved it.
The US military decided to try it out before implementing the plan. They chose a species of bat called the Mexican free-tailed bat for the experiment. They were fitted with time bombs and flown to the top of buildings at a certain location. However, the bats did not climb into the intended buildings. They flew in droves to America’s munitions factory. Attempts to catch the bats with bombs before they detonated were also unsuccessful. So they might only watch helplessly as America’s own laboratories were destroyed by bat explosions. So America abandoned the bat bomb project.