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The story of the battle of tannenberg continues part 2/3
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Once upon a time the United States came shockingly close to annexing the Dominican Republic.
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/2717114
https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/61771?lang=en
https://news.yahoo.com/1871-us-almost-acquired-dominican-135435379.html
https://www.insider.com/annexation-of-santo-domingo-act-ulysses-grant-dominican-republic-2022-7
CORRECTION:
Samuel Doe was murdered by Prince Johnson, an ally of Charles Taylor, but not Charles Taylor himself. -
Joe, Nate, and Tom talk about the Soviet all woman night bomber unit of WWII that terrorized the Nazis and pissed off Soviet men.
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https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night
https://www.wrightmuseum.org/2020/10/01/the-soviet-night-witches/
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/who-were-the-soviet-night-witches
https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/06/night-witches-wwii-female-pilots -
Joe is joined by Nate to talk about the time the Nazis built a death trap out of wood and thought it would be perfect for the Hitler Youth.
Correction:
The Gloster Meteor was a jet that also saw limited action in WWll
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http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Heinkel-Salamander.html
http://www.aviation-history.com/heinkel/he162.html
https://shop.historynet.com/blogs/new-the-latest-from-historynet-com/the-10-worst-fighters-of-world-war-ii
https://www.hotcars.com/the-me-262-the-fighter-that-could-have-changed-world-war-2/
Christopher, John (2013). The Race for Hitler's X-Planes. -
The conclusion to The Troubles series
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Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. During this episode we talk about Bloody Sunday and how and why nobody has ever been held accountable.
CONTENT WARNING: This gets pretty grim.
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Tom continues to take Joe through the history of the Troubles. In this episode we cover the famine, independence, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, partition, and more!
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Tom O'Mahony (@gotitatguineys)Host of the Beneath The Skin Podcast takes Joe on a trip through The Troubles of Northern Ireland.
Part 1/4
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Joe is once again joined by the show's producer Nate to talk about how in the middle of a stagnated war, two teams of knights got together to kill each other out of boredom as a crowd of spectators watched on.
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sources:
Barbara Tuchman. A Distant Mirror
https://web.archive.org/web/20121105020628/http://www.nipissingu.ca/department/history/muhlberger/chroniqu/texts/AINSWORT.HTM
Steven Muhlberger. The Combat of the Thirty, Deeds of Arms Series, vol. 2 -
Joe is joined by producer Nate (@inthesedeserts)to talk about the time the CIA attempted to invade cuba with a handful of guys and some repurposed fishing trawlers.
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http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2134
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB355/bop-vol3.pdf
https://www.historynet.com/cold-war-bay-of-pigs-invasion/
https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion
https://web.archive.org/web/20160621043713/https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/the-bay-of-pigs-invasion.html -
The horrible conclusion to King Philip’s War
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Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved Kin
James Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England
Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War -
The war finally starts and the colonial authorities immediately make everything much worse.
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Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved Kin
James Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England
Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War -
The little known story of the most apocalyptic war in American History. Part 1/3
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Lisa Brooks. Our Beloved Kin
James Drake. King Philip’s War: Civil War in New England
Kyle Zelner. Rabble in Arms, Massachusetts Towns and Militiamen During King Philip’s War -
the Empire of Japan built the largest battleship the world had ever seen and then decided to use it in the dumbest way possible.
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Russel Spurr. A Glorious Way to Die
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/supership/last-nf.html
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yamato-was-hell-sink%E2%80%94and-it-went-out-bang-nuclear-blast-192257 -
Once upon a time New Zealand made their own tank. It did not go well.
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https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/NewZealand/Bob_Semple_Tank.php
The Semple Tank, J.Plowman, Classic Military Vehicle Magazine
National Library of New Zealand -
Things get weird in the conclusion to the Otto Skorzeny story.
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The pretender to the Albanian throne and Rhodesia fan boy declares himself king, gets arrested for smuggling guns, and gets in a high speed private plane chase while armed with a rocket launcher.
Joe is joined by KD, writer and runner of the War Takes blog.
https://wartakes.com/
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@war_takes
Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/01/leka-zogu
https://www.ft.com/content/6f2f39aa-21ab-11e1-a1d8-00144feabdc0
https://web.archive.org/web/20210613055654/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8926722/Leka-I-Zogu.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20010122090100/http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/1127/balkankings.html -
Skorzeny launches the mission to rescue Benito Mussolini from a ski resort, it does not go well.
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Stuart Smith. Otto Skorzeny: The Devil’s Disciple
Dr Robert Forczk. Rescuing Mussolini: Gran Sasso 1943
Otto Skorzeny. Hitler’s Commando - Show more
