I'm just having images of airbases, or aircraft carriers carrying bat bombs and the things somehow escaping causing havoc before they even get loaded onto a plane. The basic idea of using them on wooden buildings seems workable, but you just know the whole scheme was probably asking for batty trouble somewhere and somehow.
I suppose it could get US commanders saying "Bats!" instead of "Nuts!".
Aye, I'm sure someone was thinking about how to make them bigger.
Sargon
That reminds me of the Soviet Anti Tank Dogs trained to run under tanks looking for food with mines on their backs. Trouble is they only associated Soviet tanks with food and when used in action ran under them instead of the German tanks.
I actually feel that the bat bombs probably would have worked well. From what I understand the bats went immediately from getting outfitted with the bombs to the cluster bomb type arrangement. If I remember correctly the bats were also asleep at the time they were outfitted.
The thing is by the time they were ready pretty much every Japanese city had been burned down by conventional bombing. That and the A bomb was pretty much ready.
And unlike the anti tank dogs there weren't any American cities for them to accidentally blow up.