World War Two turned aerial bombing into a puzzle both sides raced to solve: how do you hit a target you can barely see from thousands of feet up? This film tracks the odd and often desperate answers engineers came up with, from pigeon-guided missiles that used live birds to steer warheads, to a bat-based incendiary program meant to set Japanese cities alight, to early television-guided drones and radio-controlled gliders developed by German engineers. Declassified archival footage and photographs carry most of the story, showing test flights, prototype hardware, and the labs where these devices were built. The film treats each project as a real engineering attempt rather than a curiosity, laying out how it was meant to work and why most of them failed or arrived too late to matter. What emerges is a picture of the guided-weapons race that came decades before laser and satellite targeting, and the strange dead ends that fed into it.