Ep. 57: A BAT-ty idea to win WWII
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Lytle Adams had bats in his belfry. He had visited Carlsbad cavern right before Pearl Harbor was attacked. He came up with a great idea for weapon(s) of mass destruction hat would burn up the paper and wood cities of Japan. All he would need was a one ounce incendiary bomb, a breakaway bomb case, and millions of bats. So the Marines set up guards at several Texas caves containing millions of 3-inch winged warriors on their way to the Pacific. Testing sacrificed thousands of these brave flyers but the concept worked…until one worked better. Hear the wild story of the World War II Bat Bomb in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wies about Texas, the Texas History Podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | I'm your host Ken Wise and I want to thank you very much for tuning into this |
| 0:17.7 | podcast for another shot of Texas History. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm taping and releasing this podcast in August of 2018 and of course being Texas |
| 0:26.3 | it's hot but it were also entering the heart of hurricane season approaching |
| 0:31.8 | the first anniversary of Hurricane Harvey. |
| 0:34.3 | As long time listeners know, the World Headquarters of Wise About Texas is near Houston, and |
| 0:40.0 | we got 53 inches of rain on the world headquarters, luckily stayed dry. |
| 0:44.9 | My parents are not so lucky they just moved back in last weekend. |
| 0:48.9 | We're all very happy about that. |
| 0:50.4 | Many, many people that I'm acquainted with are just now getting back in their houses and |
| 0:55.4 | many have not yet gotten back in their houses. |
| 0:57.9 | So y'all throw up a prayer for everybody who was victimized by Hurricane Harvey and I can tell you everybody around here is getting |
| 1:03.8 | a little nervous as we enter this part of Hurricane season. |
| 1:06.8 | It's between middle August and middle September that you really got to be careful. |
| 1:11.5 | But everybody down here is prepared and we're upbeat and we're going to get |
| 1:15.2 | through it. Well today we're going to talk about a war story, specifically World War II. |
| 1:30.0 | And we are a few days past the August 6th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima and the August 9th anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki. |
| 1:35.7 | The Japanese government surrendered, announced the surrender on August 15th, and 73 years later we're going to talk a little bit about World War II and |
| 1:47.3 | specifically the Pacific Theater and I'll tell you why that's important but |
| 1:51.4 | first let me mention that I hope all of the listeners of this |
| 1:55.6 | podcast get their exercise in. |
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