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The American Plan to Drop Bomb-Carrying Bats
Project X-Ray was funded, tested—and accidentally proved itself by setting an airfield on fire.
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The I-400 was longer than a football field, could circle the globe, and carried a secret weapon inside a watertight hangar.
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The Strangest Weapons of World War II
Submarine aircraft carriers. Ice warships. Bomb-carrying bats. Follow seven projects born when ordinary ideas no longer seemed enough.
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