It has come to my attention that Spacebat was not the first bat to be incinerated by the U.S. government. In a surreal bit of history that sounds more like a fiendish plot by the Joker than an actual defense project, the Mexican Free-tailed Bat was being considered as a means of delivering firebombs to Japanese cities during WWII. You can learn all about it at wikipedia.

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