7. OHKA (CHERRY BLOSSOM PLANE) SUICIDE PLANE-- Japanese purpose-built suicide kamikaze planes.
6. ANTI TANK DOGS-- Deployed by the Soviet Union. These dogs were kept hungry and taught to search under tanks for food. Each one had a 10-12 kg mine detonator on a wooden level on the dog's back. When they would go under a German tank, the wooden lever would catch and explode the mine.
It didn't work as the dogs were scared by German gunfire and would run back to Soviet lines and explode there, but the Soviet Union claimed they destroyed 300 tanks this way.
5. BACHEM BA349 NATTER FIGHTER-- German plane could be launched from a 25-foot rail and controlled by radio. Once above the enemy bombers,the pilot would take over. 36 built.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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