Sinopsis
The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast hosted by two veterans of the US Army who get together to hate on military failures throughout history. Our podcast will always be free, but if you think what we do is worth a buck you can throw us one here:https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Episodios
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Episode 158 - Mathew Charles Lamb: The Spree Shooter Turned Racist War Hero
31/05/2021 Duración: 01h12minMathew Charles Lamb was Canada's first spree shooter. He was found insane and locked up in a psych ward. He was then dosed with acid, deemed sane, and went off to fight and die in Rhodesia. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Will Toffan. Watching the Devil Dance https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ogRFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5820%2C4561932 https://parl.canadiana.ca/view/oop.debates_HOC3002_08/869?r=0&s=2 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yEM_AAAAIBAJ&dq=matthew-charles-lamb&pg=2021%2C3005270 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oARFAAAAIBAJ&dq=mathew%20lamb&pg=5652%2C3419165 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qj9VAAAAIBAJ&dq=lamb%20canada%20rhodesia&pg=4006%2C2766738
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Episode 157 - The Mk 14 Torpedo and How the US Hated Their Own Submariners
24/05/2021 Duración: 59minDuring WWII the US developed a revolutionary new torpedo that excelled at attempting to murder the people who launched it. This didn't seem to bother the US Navy. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/ww2-navy-torpedo-problems-mk14/ https://navalunderseamuseum.org/mk-14/ https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/torpedo-scandal-rear-adm-charles-lockwood-the-mark-14-and-the-bureau-of-ordnance/ https://www.businessinsider.com/how-legendary-wwii-navy-submarine-uss-tang-sank-itself-2020-10
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Episode 156 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 2: Task Force Dick Ripple
17/05/2021 Duración: 01h08minThe US keeps feeding soldiers into the death forest for no reason. Eventually win. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episode 155 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 1: Courtney Hodges Hates His Own Soldiers
10/05/2021 Duración: 55minThe US plans the battle of the Hurtgen Forest. The first step is actively hating your own soldiers. sources for both episodes https://www.historynet.com/the-hurtgen-forest-1944-the-worst-place-of-any.htm https://europeremembers.com/story/battle-of-huertgen-forest/ https://armyhistory.org/hell-in-the-forest-the-22d-infantry-regiment-in-the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest/ https://9thinfantrydivision.net/battle-of-the-hurtgen-forest/ https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/longest-land-battle-hurtgen-forest/ https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2020/01/29/the-battle-of-hurtgen-forest-a-tactical-nightmare-for-allied-forces/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episode 153 - Conrad Von Hotzendorf Part 2: Mt Doom
03/05/2021 Duración: 42minThe conclusion of the Conrad Von Hotzendorf story Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episode 152 - Conrad Von Hotzendorf Part 1: Load Bearing Franz
26/04/2021 Duración: 01h01minA new challenger for the worst commander of all time has entered the arena. ** corrections** Gavrilo Princeps is mistakenly called a "Bosnian" during the episode. What we went to say was "Bosnian Serb" and our brain melted mid sentence. sources for both episodes: A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire Collision Course: Franz Conrad Von Hötzendorf, Serbia, and the Politics of Preventive War https://www.historynet.com/carpathian-catastrophe.htm http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2019/11/forgotten-campaign-carpathian-winter.html support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episode 151 - Mad Jack Churchill
19/04/2021 Duración: 01h34minJack Churchill was a lunatic and one of the most interesting people to ever run screaming onto an enemy beach while wielding a sword. sources: https://allthatsinteresting.com/mad-jack-churchill https://www.historynet.com/the-daring-exploits-of-mad-jack-churchill.htm https://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackchurchill https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/jack-churchill-carry-a-sword.html https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2019/01/07/mad-jack-churchill-a-rare-breed-of-warrior/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episode 150 - This Genocide is Brought to You by Fanta
12/04/2021 Duración: 01h09minThe non exhaustive story of how the corporate world supported the Nazis as they committed the worst crimes in human history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://timeline.com/fanta-coca-cola-nazi-845ee7e513af https://www.businessinsider.com/how-coca-cola-invented-fanta-in-nazi-germany-2019-11 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fanta-soda-origins-nazi-germany Edwin Black. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation https://historycollection.com/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/6/
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Episode 149 - War Duck
05/04/2021 Duración: 01h05minA return of the animal episode! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episode 148 - The Time a Pyramid Scheme Caused a Civil War
29/03/2021 Duración: 01h39minBunkers! Fraud! A guy robbing a bank with a rocket launcher! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2000/03/jarvis.htm https://unherd.com/2022/01/how-albania-became-a-pyramid-scheme/ https://theculturetrip.com/europe/albania/articles/the-pyramid-crisis-in-albania/ https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/albania.htm
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Episode 147 - The Terrible History of the Nauvoo Legion
22/03/2021 Duración: 02h08minJoe is Joined by the crew of the Brigham Young Money Podcast as they regale him with the story of militant mormonism. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episode 146 - The Jewish Avengers
15/03/2021 Duración: 01h23min"A nation for a nation" Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://apnews.com/article/tel-aviv-international-news-israel-ap-top-news-69cb4cdfab7d416a968b95aef87d18c1 https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-an-eye-for-an-eye-jews-who-sought-to-kill-germans-in-revenge-for-the-holocaust-1.8094962 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war Lang, Berel (1996). "Holocaust Memory and Revenge: The Presence of the Past". Jewish Social Studies
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Episode 145 - Monte Melkonian Part 3: Commander Avo
08/03/2021 Duración: 01h15minMonte becomes one of the greatest military commanders in Armenian history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episode 144 - Monte Melkonian Part 2: Most Wanted
01/03/2021 Duración: 52minMonte joins the Armenian Secret Army and sets off on an international mission of "armed propaganda" Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
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Episode 143 - Monte Melkonian Part 1: The Boy Scout Revolutionary
22/02/2021 Duración: 01h06minThe story of how a regular kid from a California suburb ended up as a military hero of Armenia. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Melkonian, Markar. My Brother's Road: An American's Fateful Journey to Armenia
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Episode 142 - Castle Itter
15/02/2021 Duración: 01h18minAt the end of WWII a group of French POWs went looking for help and ended up taking part in one of the weirdest battles in military history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32622651 https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/itter-castle-strangest-battle-world-war-ii-152721
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Episode 141 - The Last Stand of the Danzig Mailmen
08/02/2021 Duración: 01h00sOne the nazis stormed into Poland at the opening stages of World War II it was not soldiers, trench lines, or pill boxes that they had to conquer first. Instead, it was the Danzig Post Office. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/employees-danzig-post-office-fought-germans-15-hours-invasion-poland-captured htmlhttps://libcom.org/history/defence-polish-post-office-danzig https://web.archive.org/web/20060502021616/http://www.1939.pl/epizody/poczta_gdansk.htm
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Episode 140 - Operation Kitona
01/02/2021 Duración: 01h23minRwanda invades Congo using a fleet of hijacked planes to spark the Second Congo War. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://warisboring.com/bomb-the-other-side-of-the-runway/ https://www.economist.com/international/1998/09/03/heading-for-an-african-war https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/08/25/angola-sends-thousands-of-troops-to-back-kabila/c5da7c99-0f4a-469a-8a32-a74d46b79a0d/ https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/10/world/pilot-s-account-seems-to-confirm-rwanda-role-in-congo-strife.html
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Episode 139 - Operation Red Dog
25/01/2021 Duración: 01h24minA group of nazis, KKK, and gangsters Voltron together to come up with the dumbest attempted invasion in American history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Bell, Stewart. The Bayou of Pigs http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/
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Episode 138 - Eugene Debs
18/01/2021 Duración: 01h28minEugene Debs organizes the working class and fights back against American entry into WWI. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fiery-socialist-challenged-nations-role-wwi-180969386/ https://debsfoundation.org/index.php/landing/debs-biography/ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-eugene-debs/