Disappointed they didn't use the phrase "anal ladle" even once.

The Crippled Eagles were a collection of American Neo nazis, white nationalists, and fascists who flooded the colony of Rhodesia to defend white nationalism. They failed hilariously. This is the story of how they failed and died. 

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Sources:
https://taskandpurpose.com/history/vets-want-fight-isis-can-learn-something-old-fights-african-bush
https://ricochet.media/en/2394/meet-the-canadian-soldiers-behind-a-white-supremacist-military-surplus-store
The Nation. Volume 222. New York: The Nation Company. 1976.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/magazine/rhodesia-zimbabwe-white-supremacists.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/01/03/soldier-of-fortune-marketing-for-mercenaries/475aac8b-ddce-4878-b732-77111bb70b67/
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2011/09/the-dark-side-of-soldier-of-fortune-magazine-contract-killers-and-mercenaries-for-hire/
https://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/soldier-of-fortune-magazine-2016-02

Episode 102 - The Crippled Eagles of Rhodesia

Robert E Lee was a traitor, a slave owner, and a war criminal. 

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Sources for this episode:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/
https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-lee-slaveholder/
http://fair-use.org/national-anti-slavery-standard/1866/04/14/robert-e-lee-his-brutality-to-his-slaves
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/arlington-bobby-lee-and-the-peculiar-institution/61428/
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2013/06/30/Confederates-slave-hunt-in-North-a-military-disgrace/stories/201306300221

Episode 105 - Robert E Lee Was a Monster

Joseph Beyrle is the only known American Soldier to fight within the ranks of the Red Army during WWII. 

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Sources:
https://www.rbth.com/history/330871-joseph-beyerle-american-paratrooper-ussr-wwii
https://ss.sites.mtu.edu/mhugl/2017/12/08/joseph-beyrle-dual-soldier/
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/featured/incredible-story-joseph-beyrle-american-fight-u-s-russian-army-wwii.html
https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2010/02/local_hero_joe_beyrles_possess.html

Episode 107- Joseph Beyrle

Joseph Medicine Crow became the last War Chief of the Crow Tribe. He did this by counting coup, stealing an enemy's weapon, and stealing their horses....in World War II. 

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Sources: 
Joseph Medicine Crow, Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/joseph-medicine-crow-last-crow-tribe-war-chief-dies-at-102

Episode 110 - Joseph Medicine Crow

Blow up Mount Rushmore.

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Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/sordid-history-mount-rushmore-180960446/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/03/mount-rushmore-gutzon-borglum-klan-stone-mountain/
https://apnews.com/430aa7f10b344eef891ff733116cf3ae
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/monumental-racism-the-kkk-member-who-carved-mount-rushmore

Episode 111 - Mount Rushmore is a Racist Tourist Trap

The Wagner Group is what happens when money, strange neo nazi cults, and proxy wars have a baby. 

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sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/middleeast/american-commandos-russian-mercenaries-syria.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-wagner-group-mercenaries-where-operate-2018-4
https://www.fpri.org/article/2019/10/diplomacy-and-dividends-who-really-controls-the-wagner-group/
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/russian-mercenaries-wagner-africa/568435/

Episode 112 - Wagner Group

Grab your butt ladles and get ready for the most epic tale of revenge in history. 

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Sources:
 Allyn, John. 47 Ronin. Tuttle Books.
http://chushingura.biz/
http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/chushinguranew/CHUSHINGURA.htm

Episode 113 - The 47 Ronin

Stupid sexy Flanders. 

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Sources: DeVries, Kelly (2006). Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century: Discipline, Tactics, and Technology. The Boydell Press.

Episode 114 - The Battle of the Golden Spurs

Folks, it turns out Nazis are in fact, bad. 

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*CORRECTION*
A correction is needed regarding our answer to the question from the Legion in this episode. We originally thought the Army Esports team was just a Esports team staffed by soldiers who got a sweet gig. We were wrong. It is staffed by Recruiters. We officially retract our statement and encourage everyone to troll them until they go away. Children should not be targeted for military recruitment


Sources:
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 2006
https://www.dw.com/en/the-wehrmacht-and-the-holocaust-on-the-battlefield/a-53366016

Episode 115- The Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht

The one time a downed Japanese pilot started a small civil war on a remote Hawaiian island. 

*correction*
A pronunciation guide was used for the word Niihau, which said it is nee-how. Others have told us this is incorrect and it is instead Nee-ee-how. 

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sources:
https://www.historynet.com/the-niihau-incident.htm
https://timeline.com/this-japanese-wwii-fighter-pilot-thought-he-crash-landed-on-a-deserted-hawaiian-island-wrong-635d898b08d0
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/niihau-incident-hawaiian.html
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/the-niihau-incident/

Episode 116 - The Niihau Incident

Francis from the Hell of a way to die Podcast and Shocks, everyone's favorite podcast lawyer join the show to talk about all of the times the US and USSR lost nuclear weapons due to horrible incompetence.

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sources:
https://interestingengineering.com/broken-arrows-the-worlds-lost-nuclear-weapons
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/17483/8-nuclear-weapons-us-has-lost
https://www.introtoglobalstudies.com/2012/10/broken-arrow-lost-nuclear-weapons-in-canada/
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/command-and-control-goldsboro-1961/

Episode 123 - Broken Arrow

The Lions Led By Donkeys podcast is a military history podcast for laughing at the worst military failures, inept commanders, and crazy stories from throughout the history of human conflict.

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