Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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The Battle of Ramree Island has gone down in history for being known for one thing: a massive crocodile attack that apparently destroyed the Japanese as they attempted to retreat. But, what if we told you that that popular story was completely made up by one guy who wasn't even there at the time?

Sources:

Allen, Louis. Burma: The Longest War

McLynn, Frank. The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942–45

Wright, B. S. (1962). Wildlife Sketches: Near and Far.

Wright, B. S. (1968). The Frogmen of Burma

Platt, Steven. Man eating by Estuarine Crocodiles: the Ramree Island massacre revisited

Lyons, Chuck. The Mystery at the Battle of Ramree Island. WWII History. Vol. 25. No. 1

Frazier, George. A Man's Worst Friend. The Boston Globe Archive. https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/438950677/

https://the-avocado.org/2019/03/02/things-that-are-not-the-horrors-of-ramree-island/

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/crocodile-massacre-of-troops-debunked-as-wartime-myth-k6vxhdfsq

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Josh Boerman, of the Worst of All Possible Worlds and Ill Conceived, joins Joe in the studio to talk about the time that an absolute madman attempted to build the largest aircraft carrier in the world out of ice.

sources:

Perutz, M. F. "A Description of the Iceberg Aircraft Carrier and the Bearing of the Mechanical Properties of Frozen Wood Pulp upon Some Problems of Glacier Flow". The Journal of Glaciology.

Lutz, Stephen. Project Habakkuk’s Iceberg Aircraft Carrier. WWII History. Vol 10, No. 8

Hemming, Henry. Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy.

Gold, L W. The Canadian Habbakuk Project: a Project of the National Research Council of Canada. Cambridge, UK

Cross, L D. Habbakuk: A Secret Ship Made of Ice.

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Tom and Joe are joined by Lucy Valentine of the podcasts Boonta Vista and Savant Garde to talk about...whatever FLCL is. Is it about growing up? Puberty? Changing oneself for the better? Trauma? We have no idea but man is it fun.

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In a time before US Naval dominance, the not-quite-yet imperial power decided to modernize its Navy to a level that might enable it to compete with its European counterparts.

Instead, they created the USS Massachusetts and the Indiana Class. A battleship that was not a battleship, with guns so large they were more hazardous to the ship itself than any enemy, and so impossible to control the Navy kept crashing it into rocks.

There are two battleships named the USS Massachusetts. This is the BB-2. The one that fought in WWII is the BB-59

Sources:

Gardiner, Robert; Lambert, Andrew D. (1992). Steam, Steel & Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815–1905

https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2016/07/diving_the_worst_battleship_ev.html

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2020/june/race-uss-oregon

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/uss-massachusetts-why-worst-us-navy-battleship-ever-210474

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-epic-journey-of-uss-oregon-during-the-spanish-american-war/

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1901/03/26/117958746.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/08/24/105058393.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/12/16/120273752.pdf

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/12/02/104844371.pdf

Nate emerges from a vat of paprikas boykibble to take the reins and bring us the story of The Battle of Haçova, a decisive clash between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, the implications of the Hamburger Helper Mascot, and Smurf racism.

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