Alle afleveringen van Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast – pagina 8 van 10

Episode 226 - The Cimbrian War

19 september 2022 · 1 uur

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Rome kills 80,000 of their own soldiers because of a personal beef. Lees meer

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Sources:

Theodor Mommsen. The History of Rome IV "The Revolution"

Plutarch. Life of Marius.

Richard Evans. Rome's Cimbric Wars

Peter Tsouras. The Cimbrian War, 113-101 BC

Mike Duncan. The Storm before the Storm

Episode 225 - Operation Pastorious

12 september 2022 · 1 uur 20 min

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During WWII the Nazis attempted to recruit a team of spies to sabotage factories within the US. Instead what they did was hire a bunch of rejects who took their spy money, got drunk, and hired sex workers until they turned themselves in to the FBI. Lees meer

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sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inside-story-how-nazi-plot-sabotage-us-war-effort-was-foiled-180959594/

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/nazi-saboteurs-and-george-dasch

https://web.archive.org/web/20151218132240/http://www.montauklife.com/history/history_night_of_the_nazis.html

https://www.spiegel.de/politik/erschiessen-oder-erhaengen-a-77234129-0002-0001-0000-000007859070?context=issue

https://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-german-saboteurs-invade-america-in-1942/

Episode 224 - The Battle of Wake Island

5 september 2022 · 1 uur 14 min

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Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor the Japanese military set their eyes on a tiny speck of a rock staffed with a handful of Marines and civilian contractors. Trapped and with no hope of relief, the strange adhoc garrison made the invaders bleed. Lees meer

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https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/battle-of-wake-island-1941

https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-wake-island/

https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/npswapa/extcontent/usmc/pcn-190-003119-00/sec1.htm

https://www.historynet.com/hard-luck-island-battle-of-wake-island/

Episode 223 - The First Barbary War

29 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 30 min

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America scrapes together the US Navy to go fight pirates on the other side of the world. They accomplish almost nothing and then go home. Lees meer

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Sources:

Wheelan, Joseph (2003), Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801–1805

Zacks, Richard (2005), The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805

https://clements.umich.edu/exhibit/barbary-wars/first-barbary-war/

https://www.historynet.com/tripoli-pirates-foiled/

Episode 222 - The Wilkes Expedition

22 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 16 min

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Once upon a time the US Navy went on a scientific expedition based upon the theory of a hollow earth. They murdered swaths of innocent people and the commander went insane, beating and kidnapping most of his own crew. Lees meer

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sources:

https://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/usexex/

https://archive.org/details/seaofgloryameric00phil

https://www.chimuadventures.com/blog/2016/08/charles-wilkes/

Episode 221 - The Battle of Lake Tanganyika Part 2: Nelson of the Lake

15 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 11 min

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Spicer Simson rides into some of the dumbest combat of all time, somehow wins. Lees meer

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Sources:
Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth

Edward Paice. Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa

Episode 220 - The Battle of Lake Tanganyika Part 1: The Worst Officer in the British Navy

8 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 14 min

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During WWI the british navy thought of one of the most pointless battle plans of the entire war. They had to find someone equally worthless to command it. Lees meer

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Sources:

Giles Foden. Mimi and Toutou Go Forth

Edward Paice. Tip and Run. The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa

Episode 219 - The Battle of Little Bighorn Part 3: The Death of Custer

1 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 52 min

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Part 3/3 Custer leads his command to their deaths. Lees meer

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Sources:

Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse

Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876"

Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle.

He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories.

The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876

Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won.

Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn

Episode 218 - The Battle of Little Bighorn Part 2: Racism as Military Doctrine

25 juli 2022 · 1 uur 10 min

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Part 2/3 The American invasion of native land gets off to a bad start. Lees meer

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Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse

Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876"

Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle.

He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories.

The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876

Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won.

Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn

Episode 217 - The Battle of Little Bighorn Part 1: Custer, Bad Student

18 juli 2022 · 1 uur 10 min

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The US manufactures a war against the indigenous people of the Great Plains. Lees meer

Part 1/3

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Sources for the entire series:
Thomas Powers. The Killing of Crazy Horse

Dr. Margot Liberty. Cheyenne Primacy: The Tribes' Perspective As Opposed To That Of The United States Army; A Possible Alternative To "The Great Sioux War Of 1876"

Ernie Lapointe. Oral History of the Little Big Horn Battle.

He Dog. Story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Joseph Medicine Crow. From the Heart of the Crow Country. The Crow Indians' Own Stories.

The official record of a court of inquiry convened at Chicago, Illinois, January 13, 1879, by the President of the United States upon the request of Major Marcus A. Reno, 7th U.S. Cavalry, to investigate his conduct at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25-26, 1876

Thomas Powers. How the Battle of Little Bighorn was won.

Robert Utley. How Custer Met His End at Little Bighorn

Episode 216 - The Dieppe Raid

11 juli 2022 · 1 uur 13 min

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The British feed hundreds of Canadian soldiers into a wood chipper for no reason. Lees meer

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Sources:
Fowler, Will. Allies at Dieppe.

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-jubilee-dieppe-raid-1942

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/battles-and-stages/battle-of-dieppe

https://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/newspapers/operations/dieppe_e.html

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/dieppe-a-colossal-blunder

Episode 215 - How the US Poisoned the Marshall Islands

4 juli 2022 · 1 uur 22 min

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The story of how the US poisoned the Marshall Islands with nuclear fallout and did nothing to clean it up.

sources:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/02/27/castle-bravo-the-largest-u-s-nuclear-explosion/

https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/castle-bravo

https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/

Zohl De Ishtar "Poisoned Lives, Contaminated Lands: Marshall Islanders Are Paying a High Price for the United States Nuclear Arsenal" Seattle Journal for Social Justice.

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/lost-sea/

https://borgenproject.org/thyroid-cancer-a-radiation-caused-healthcare-crisis-in-the-marshall-islands/

Oishi, Matashichi. "The Day the Sun Rose in the West: The Lucky Dragon, and I." University of Hawaii Press.

*corrections*

FDR died after completing 3 terms in office, barely made it 80 days into his 4th.

Episode 214 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 5: I Die With My Country

27 juni 2022 · 1 uur 15 min

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The conclusion to the war of the triple alliance. Lees meer

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Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 213 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 4: Death Funnel

20 juni 2022 · 1 uur 6 min

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Part 4/5 Lees meer

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Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 212 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 3: Send in the Canoes!

13 juni 2022 · 1 uur 20 min

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Part 3/5 Lees meer

Suicide canoes, it turned out, would not be the wonder weapon Solano Lopez thought they would be.

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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim

Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

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Episode 211 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 2: Man Vs Cactus

6 juni 2022 · 1 uur 6 min

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Part 2/5. The Paraguayan Army fights a battle against a field of cacti and hardly wins. Lees meer

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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim

Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 210 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 1: Night Demons

30 mei 2022 · 1 uur 7 min

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Part 1/5. Paraguay picks a fight with an entire continent. Lees meer

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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim

Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 209 - The Hilarious Military Career of L Ron Hubbard

23 mei 2022 · 1 uur 28 min

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The founder of Scientology had a very stupid naval career Lees meer

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Sources:
Russel Miller. Bare-Faced Messiah

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/intro.htm

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/primary-sources-l-ron-hubbard-leaves-the-navy

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/30/l-ron-hubbard/?safari=1

Episode 208 - The Nika Riots

16 mei 2022 · 1 uur 11 min

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What if your local sports fans attempted a coup Lees meer

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Sources:
Procopius: JUSTINIAN SUPPRESSES THE NIKA REVOLT, 532

JB Bury. The History of the Later Roman Empire

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-nika-revolt-1788557

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/nika.html

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/war-terraces-nika-riots-mm.html?safari=1

Episode 207 - Nanking Part 3

9 mei 2022 · 1 uur 7 min

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The conclusion to the nanking series Lees meer

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Sources:
https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-10/tokyo-trials

Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII

Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing

David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14

Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.

Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/

Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Episode 206 - Nanking Part 2

2 mei 2022 · 51 min

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CW: Everything Lees meer

Part 2/3

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Sources:
Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII

Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing

David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14

Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.

Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/

Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Episode 205 - Nanking Part 1

25 april 2022 · 57 min

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Content warning: Everything. Lees meer

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Sources for all related episodes:
Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII

Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing

David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14

Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.

Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing http://museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/

Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Episode 204 - The Potsdam Giants

18 april 2022 · 1 uur 6 min

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Joe, Francis, and Shocks talk about the weirdest military unit of all time. Lees meer

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Sources:

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/potsdam-giants.html?safari=1

https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2021/07/28/potsdam-giants-by-name/

Darwin, Charles (1871). The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. John Murray. p. 112.

https://knoji.com/article/the-potsdam-guards-prussias-giant-soldiers/

https://random-times.com/2018/07/14/king-frederick-william-i-of-prussia-and-his-obsession/

Episode 203 - Herman Perry, The Jungle King Part 2: The US Army's Most Wanted Man

11 april 2022 · 2 uur 1 min

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Joe and Jordan Holmes of the Knowledge Fight Podcast continue the story of Herman Perry, the Jungle King hero of WWII. Lees meer

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Sources:
Koerner, Brendan. "Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII"
https://www.cbi-theater.com/ledoroad/Ledo_Main.html
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/black-soldiers-and-ledo-road-1942-1945/

Episode 202 - Herman Perry, The Jungle King Part 1: Hell Gate

4 april 2022 · 1 uur 5 min

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Joe is joined by Jordan Holmes of the Knowledge Fight Podcast to talk about one of the coolest soldiers to ever serve in the US Army. Lees meer

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Sources:
Koerner, Brendan. 'Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/african-americans-world-war-ii

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-was-black-americas-double-war/

Episode 201 - The Polar Bear Expedition Part 4: Welcome to the Red Parade

28 maart 2022 · 1 uur 11 min

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The conclusion to the story of the polar bear expedition Lees meer

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Episode 200 - The Polar Bear Expedition Part 3: Go Chop Down the Poop Tree

21 maart 2022 · 1 uur 8 min

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Part 3/4 Lees meer

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Episode 199- The Polar Bear Expedition Part 2: Let Her Rip!

14 maart 2022 · 1 uur 5 min

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Part 2/4 Lees meer

The Detroit's own finally make it to Russia, which has been transformed into the disease realm by the Spanish Flu

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Episode 198 - The Polar Bear Expedition Part 1: Detroit's Own

7 maart 2022 · 1 uur 4 min

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Part 1/4 Lees meer

Joe is joined by Francis Horton, co-host of HOAWTD, to talk about a forgotten chapter of American history. The time the US invaded Russia in the middle of WWI and during the Russian Revolution.

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Sources for all related episodes:

James Carl Nelson. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

EM Holiday. When Hell Froze Over

https://books.google.com/books?id=UZPhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Company+A+339th+Infantry&ei=TWg1S_T4KYLEMbmezcIE&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.polarbeardocumentary.com/

http://pbma.grobbel.org/

Episode 197 - The Battle of Kursk Part 4: Drowning In Blood

27 februari 2022 · 1 uur 13 min

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The soviets launch their killing blow against the nazi army, ending the Battle of Kursk Lees meer

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Episode 196 - The Battle of Kursk Part 3: Lunch in Kursk!

21 februari 2022 · 1 uur 3 min

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SS units arrive at the battle of Kursk cheering "Lunch in Kursk!" Lees meer

They would not, in fact, have lunch in Kursk.

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Episode 195 - The Battle of Kursk Part 2: And Firebombs!

14 februari 2022 · 51 min

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Hitler edges the idea of starting one of the most disastrous battles of all time while the Soviets build Fortress Kursk. Lees meer

Correction:

Panzer V - Panther
Panzer VI - Tiger

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Episode 194 - The Battle of Kursk Part 1: Hitler is Bad at His Job

7 februari 2022 · 1 uur 6 min

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The USSR baits Nazis Germany into bleeding their army to death on 200 miles of death traps. Lees meer

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Sources for all related episodes:

Showalter, Dennis. (2013) Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II.

Guderian, Heinz (1937). Achtung – Panzer!

Nipe, George (2011). Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140912164146/http://www.uni.edu/~licari/citadel.htm

Hill, Alexander (2017), The Red Army and the Second World War,

Episode 193 - The USS Iowa Turret Explosion

31 januari 2022 · 1 uur 25 min

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Joe is joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss the time the US Navy murdered 47 of its sailors via incompetence and then decided to try to pin the blame on gay people. Lees meer

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Sources:
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/19/uss-iowa-first-came-explosion-then-cover.html
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/iowa-explosion/
A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up

Episode 192 - The Bounty Mutiny and the Cursed History of the Pitcairn Islands

23 januari 2022 · 1 uur 19 min

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Once upon a time a Royal Navy mutiny created an island of sex crimes and incest. Lees meer

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Sources:
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-real-story-behind-infamous-mutiny-hms-bounty
LOST PARADISE: FROM MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY TO A MODERN-DAY LEGACY OF SEXUAL MAYHEM, THE DARK SECRETS OF PITCAIRN ISLAND REVEALED

Episode 191 - 2008 Russo-Georgian War Part 2: Grand Theft Navy

17 januari 2022 · 1 uur 17 min

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The war begins and ends. Russia steals an entire navy. Lees meer

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Episode 190 - 2008 Russo-Georgian War Part 1: Civil War and Amphibious Mafia Landings

10 januari 2022 · 1 uur 17 min

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It turns out a 2 week long war has 100 years of history Lees meer

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Sources:

The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia

Episode 189 - The Battle of Tarawa

3 januari 2022 · 1 uur 8 min

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Fun times with the USMC on the beach! * Lees meer

*your experience may vary

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Sources:

With the Marines At Tarawa
One Square Mile of Hell
https://www.historynet.com/remembering-bloody-bloody-tarawa/

Episode 188 - The Bophuthatswana Coup

27 december 2021 · 1 uur 12 min

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What happens when white nationalists, neo nazis, and Black despots team up to try to prolong apartheid in South Africa? One of the dumbest coup attempts of all time. Lees meer

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Sources:

The Death of Apartheid: The Whites Last Stand

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104002/http://www.southafrica.info/10years/tenyearsago2.htm
http://www.law.buffalo.edu/content/dam/law/restricted-assets/pdf/faculty/mutuaM/magazines/arJulyAug94.pdf
Allister Sparks. Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change

Episode 187 - Colonel Tye and the Black Loyalists of the American Revolution

20 december 2021 · 1 uur 8 min

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The American Revolution left a lot of people behind. Lees meer

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sources:
Egerton, Douglas R., Death of Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America

Lanning, Michael Lee. African Americans in the Revolutionary War.

Episode 186 - The Greco-Italian War Part 2: The Battle of Crete

13 december 2021 · 1 uur 3 min

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Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper. Lees meer

*correction, England has won a World Cup. In 1966.

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Episode 185 - The Greco-Italian War Part 1: Tooth and Nail

6 december 2021 · 1 uur 8 min

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Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains. Lees meer

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https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/07/20/the-greco-italian-war-one-of-benito-mussolinis-biggest-failures/
https://www.historynet.com/greek-tragedy-invading-greece-wwii.htm
Cervi, Mario (1971). The Hollow Legions. Mussolini's Blunder in Greece, 1940–1941

Episode 184 - Lyudmila Pavlichenko

29 november 2021 · 56 min

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The story of the deadliest woman in military history Lees meer

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Sources:
Lady Death: The Memoir of Stalin's Sniper - Lyudmila Pavlichenko
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army-lyudmila-pavlichenko
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-soviet-sniper-23585278/

Episode 183 - Digby Tatham-Warter

22 november 2021 · 1 uur 12 min

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The most British man ever went into battle against tanks armed with an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat. Lees meer

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sources:
https://www.history.co.uk/article/ww2-heroes-the-story-of-major-digby-tatham-warter
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/digby-tatham-warter-disabled-a-german-tank-with-an-umbrella.html
https://www.saxonlodge.net/getperson.php?personID=I0973&tree=Tatham#cite1

Episode 182 - The War of the Stray Dog

15 november 2021 · 59 min

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Bulgaria (possibly) starts a war with Greece over a dog that strays over the border (maybe) and a bad dictator seizes on it as an opportunity to shore up a crumbling government. Lees meer

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sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wars-fought-stupid-reasons-stray-dog-caused-war-greece-bulgaria-1925.html
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/09/07/roll-over-and-play-dead-the-ridiculous-war-of-the-stray-dog/
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/desires-of-a-modern-indian/war-of-the-stray-dog-a-war-sparked-by-ridiculous-reasons/?source=app&frmapp=yes
http://www.thathistorynerd.com/2017/03/war-of-stray-dog.html

Episode 181 - The Charge of the Light Brigade

8 november 2021 · 1 uur 6 min

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2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history. Lees meer

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sources:
https://www.historynet.com/crimean-war-siege-in-the-caucasus.htm
https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-who-blundered-in-the-valley-of-death/
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/light-brigade-britains-disaster.html

Episode 180 - Jesse James and the Old Man in the Cave

1 november 2021 · 1 uur 18 min

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Francis Horton, one of the hosts of the What a Hell of a way to die podcasts takes the wheel to tell the story of his home state of Missouri and the weird Jesse James grifting cave. Lees meer

*Corrections*

Francis mixed up the Pottawatomie massacre and the Raid on Harper's Ferry. The massacre occured in 1856 and the raid in 1859 which ended in Brown's uprising being put down by famed asshole Robert E Lee and Brown's death.

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UNLOCKED: The Japanese Holdouts of WWII

31 oktober 2021 · 55 min

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WWII officially ended on September 2, 1945. Lees meer

It went on a lot longer for some people.

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Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-japanese-wwii-soldier-who-refused-to-surrender-for-27-years-180979431/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/28/secondworldwar.japan
https://archive.today/20130717075553/http://newspaperarchive.com/pacific-stars-and-stripes/1949-01-10/page-5?tag=kufuku&rtserp=tags/kufuku%3Fndt=by&py=1949&pey=1951

"Straggler Reports to Emperor", Pacific Stars and Stripes, p. 1, June 8, 1960

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19800405&id=J3pQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6758,842754

Episode 179 - The Battle of Bamber Bridge

25 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 4 min

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Joe is joined by Robert Evans, the host of Behind the Bastards to talk about that time the US sparked a race war within its own army during WWII. Lees meer

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Sources:
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/events-global-african-history/the-riot-of-bamber-bridge-1943/
https://www.stripes.com/history/2021-06-24/bamber-bridge-race-riot-blacks-wwii-1792183.html
https://theconversation.com/black-troops-were-welcome-in-britain-but-jim-crow-wasnt-the-race-riot-of-one-night-in-june-1943-98120
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/85/a3677385.shtml

Episode 178 - The Bloody White Baron Part 2: The God of Opium and Mass Murder

18 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 11 min

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Roman invades Mongolia, becomes a legally reincarnated god, murders thousands. Lees meer

Sources:

The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/

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