Word: muroc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheme before deciding the little beasts were too difficult to handle. Miniature bombs made of celluloid and filled with napalm gel were attached to the bats with surgical clips, and the recruits hibernated in cold-storage chests until flight time. Then came the first test run, held at Muroc Lake, Calif, in May 1943. When released from the planes, many of the bats did not wake up, and plummeted to the ground like tiny kamikazes. Others drowsily flew off, never to report for duty again. One of the bats turned out to be a mole: it took refuge under...