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Lytle S. Adams comes up with the idea for bat bombs
After his trip to the Carlsbad caverns, Lytle S. Adams a dental surgeon trip had a thought; "Couldn’t those millions of bats be fitted with incendiary bombs and dropped from planes? What could be more devastating than such a firebomb attack." With this thought Lytle sent a letter to President Roosevelt -
President Roosevelt approves the project
President Roosevelt sees his letter and proclaims "this man is not a nut, it sounds like a perfectly wild idea but is worth looking into." and assembles a team to help with this project. It was deemed Project X-ray, and began production immediately -
Testing Starts
First Testing had started in the Carlsbad Army Air Corps Base In Carlsbad, New Mexico, and already was looking bad. The Bats had blown up a barn, a generals car, a military base and an oil truck. -
The End of Project X-Ray
This Project had taken 3 years after its initial proposal, and hadn't made it as far as President Roosevelt had hoped. Bat bombs was only sapping resources from the American government. The final nail in the coffin was the proposition of the atomic bomb, Project X-Ray was quickly overshadowed and its resources lessened. Not long after, bat bombs were discontinued, and the war ended thanks to the atomic bomb.