Title: Japanese Balloon Bombing of the US
Adolf Chiang - January 2, 2006 04:34 AM (GMT)
Dammit! I couldn't find the old thread where this was talked about briefly. I recently found a very detailed article on the subject. Here it is:
http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=932(We really need a search function for this forum.)
samf - January 3, 2006 09:57 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Adolf Chiang @ Jan 2 2006, 05:34 PM) |
Dammit! I couldn't find the old thread where this was talked about briefly. I recently found a very detailed article on the subject. Here it is:
http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=932
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Hehe. I remember hearing about this one. And a similar US scheme to set fire to Tokyo with bats.
They attached incendiary charges to small bats - the idea being that they would chill them down to near-death, and then drop them by air. As the bats fell, they would warm and wake up from the cold-induced lethargy. Then (so went the plan) they would fly down and roost in Japan's paper and wood houses, where the charges would detonate and create firestorms...
When they tested it, the bats either stayed lethargic or kept trying to mate with each other, so they could only trial the idea in certain temperatures and times of the year. The bats finally managed to burn down an US Air Force hangar and an officer's car during a demonstration, and the idea was abandoned.
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| (We really need a search function for this forum.) |
Have you not tried the temporary Google search that's been wired up? It's better than nothing. Fez's new forum will of course have proper searchability.
(Perhaps some parts of this forum could be archived on Loob?)
Adolf Chiang - January 4, 2006 04:00 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (samf @ Jan 3 2006, 09:57 PM) |
Hehe. I remember hearing about this one. And a similar US scheme to set fire to Tokyo with bats.
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In wartime, many stange ideas have been dreamed up to defeat the enemy. At least Japan's one gave the Americans and Canadian fire fighters a run for their money.
As for creating firestorms, the Hiroshima bomb was dropped early in the morning, when many households were cooking breakfast, they had hoped that the shockwaves will spread the fires to help incinerate the common wooden structures of the time.
The most successful animal of war is currently the dog (it usurped the position originally held by the horse), followed by the dolphin.
samf - January 4, 2006 04:44 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Adolf Chiang @ Jan 4 2006, 05:00 PM) |
| The most successful animal of war is currently the dog (it usurped the position originally held by the horse), followed by the dolphin. |
Ah yes, the Red Army's exploding landmine dogs at Stalingrad... :blink:
Adolf Chiang - January 4, 2006 04:45 AM (GMT)
Apart from dogs, the Israelis have also experimentally trained up pigs for sniffing out mines.
Tony Montana - January 4, 2006 04:46 AM (GMT)
The Soviet giant squid from Red Alert 2 owns all.
Adolf Chiang - January 4, 2006 05:41 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Tony Montana @ Jan 4 2006, 04:46 PM) |
| The Soviet giant squid from Red Alert 2 owns all. |
I was planning to mention that in a previous post... The technology from producing that is still a long way off.