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Episode 391 - The US Navy's Flying Aircraft Carriers ft. Dr. Patrick Wyman
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Joe and Tom are joined by Dr. Patrick Wyman, host of Past Lives and Tides of History to talk about the time the US Navy attempted to deploy flying aircraft carriers, which failed at a rate of 100%
Sources:
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/how-airship-became-flying-aircraft-carrier
https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-u-s-navys-flying-aircraft-carrier-mistake-still-stings/
https://www.military.com/history/navys-short-lived-plan-dominate-skies-flying-aircraft-carriers.html
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/the-cursed-uss-akron-class.html
https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/american-hindenberg-zeppelin-disaster
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1934/july/loss-akron
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-uss-macon/
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*PREVIEW* The Great Comanche Raid of 1840
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Episode 390 - The Auschwitz Sonderkommando Revolt
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A group of people, forced into one of the worst jobs in human history, decide to launch a suicidal revolt to destroy the tools of the Holocaust.
Sources:
Lawerence Langer. Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit
Primo Levi. The Drowned and the Saved.
Nathan Cohen. Diaries of the Sonderkommando - Confronting Fate and Reality.
Tzipora Hager Halivni. Preparation for Revolt in Auschwitz-Birkenau: Heroes and Martyrs.
Filip Muller. Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers.
Henryk Tauber. Deposition made on May 24, 1945. Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the gas chambers.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sonderkommando-uprising-auschwitz-birkenau
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*PREVIEW* Charles Aznavour, French Resistance Hero
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