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The Bat Bombers

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Pearl Harbor hurtled the USA into a frenzy of reactions to frontline war. No plan was stranger than the scheme to bombard Japan with a million bats, each one carrying a tiny incendiary bomb. With the help of a survivor of the project. Peter Day tells the story of the Bat Bombers, whose efforts were blessed by President Roosevelt. Producer Neil Koenig

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