Let’s not forget good old USA also trained anti-tank dogs during WWII. American never deployed suicide dogs, but that is likely due more to operational and logistic reasons than humanitarian concern for men’s best friend.
Also, everyone knows the Japanese tried to bomb the US using robot balloons. But we on the winning side don’t frequently like to owe up to the fact that the United States attempted to bomb japan with bats. Someone in the army air force got it into their heads the bats likes to roost in the attics of highly flammable wood and paper traditional Japanese houses. So a tiny incendiary device was designed that could be strapped into bats. The idea was thousands of these bats would be raised and trained to fly with these tiny fire bombs. These bats will be dropped out of airplanes over japan, where they will find Japanese attics to roost in, and after a set time, the little clock work fire bomb on the bat will incinerate the bat, and in the process set millions of Japanese houses on fire.
Well, it got wackier when someone decided the bats need to be chilled before loaded onto the planes so they enter into a torpid state and not hurt themselves in their containers during the airplane trip. The problem is it takes too long to warm the bats back up to fly properly. So when the bats will test dropped they fell like paper weights rather than warm up and start flying,
Also, everyone knows the Japanese tried to bomb the US using robot balloons. But we on the winning side don’t frequently like to owe up to the fact that the United States attempted to bomb japan with bats. Someone in the army air force got it into their heads the bats likes to roost in the attics of highly flammable wood and paper traditional Japanese houses. So a tiny incendiary device was designed that could be strapped into bats. The idea was thousands of these bats would be raised and trained to fly with these tiny fire bombs. These bats will be dropped out of airplanes over japan, where they will find Japanese attics to roost in, and after a set time, the little clock work fire bomb on the bat will incinerate the bat, and in the process set millions of Japanese houses on fire.
Well, it got wackier when someone decided the bats need to be chilled before loaded onto the planes so they enter into a torpid state and not hurt themselves in their containers during the airplane trip. The problem is it takes too long to warm the bats back up to fly properly. So when the bats will test dropped they fell like paper weights rather than warm up and start flying,
