Honestly, I would have fucked off into the jungle a long time before dick leeches. China is like right over there, and probably mostly dick leech free, and plenty of opportunity if you have flexible morals and a decent rifle.

You know some shit is about to happen when 1) the host cites the time of day, or 2) a person in a crowd is singled out by name...

Fun times with the USMC on the beach! *

*your experience may vary

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With the Marines At Tarawa
One Square Mile of Hell
https://www.historynet.com/remembering-bloody-bloody-tarawa/

Episode 189 - The Battle of Tarawa

SS units arrive at the battle of Kursk cheering "Lunch in Kursk!" 

They would not, in fact, have lunch in Kursk. 

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Episode 196 - The Battle of Kursk Part 3: Lunch in Kursk!

Part 1/4 

Joe is joined by Francis Horton, co-host of HOAWTD, to talk about a forgotten chapter of American history. The time the US invaded Russia in the middle of WWI and during the Russian Revolution. 

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Sources for all related episodes:

James Carl Nelson. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

EM Holiday. When Hell Froze Over

https://books.google.com/books?id=UZPhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Company+A+339th+Infantry&ei=TWg1S_T4KYLEMbmezcIE&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://www.polarbeardocumentary.com/

http://pbma.grobbel.org/

Episode 198 - The Polar Bear Expedition Part 1: Detroit's Own

The conclusion to the story of the polar bear expedition 

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Episode 201 - The Polar Bear Expedition Part 4: Welcome to the Red Parade

Joe and Jordan Holmes of the Knowledge Fight Podcast continue the story of Herman Perry, the Jungle King hero of WWII.

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Sources:
Koerner, Brendan. "Now the Hell Will Start:  One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII"
https://www.cbi-theater.com/ledoroad/Ledo_Main.html
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/black-soldiers-and-ledo-road-1942-1945/

Episode 203 - Herman Perry, The Jungle King Part 2:  The US Army's Most Wanted Man

Joe, Francis, and Shocks talk about the weirdest military unit of all time.

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https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/potsdam-giants.html?safari=1

https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2021/07/28/potsdam-giants-by-name/

Darwin, Charles (1871). The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. John Murray. p. 112.

https://knoji.com/article/the-potsdam-guards-prussias-giant-soldiers/

https://random-times.com/2018/07/14/king-frederick-william-i-of-prussia-and-his-obsession/

Episode 204 - The Potsdam Giants

CW: Everything 

Part 2/3

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Sources:
Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII

Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing

David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14

Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.

Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/

Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Episode 206 - Nanking Part 2

The conclusion to the nanking series 

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https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-10/tokyo-trials

Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII

Timothy Brook. Documents on the Rape of Nanjing

David Askew. The International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone: An introduction. Sino-Japanese Studies Vol. 14

Joseph Chapel. Denying Genocide: The Evolution of the Denial of the Holocaust and the Nanking Massacre.

Robert P Gray (translation into english. Originally by the Nanjing University Department of History Professors Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, and Cha Ruizhen) Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing museums.cnd.org/njmassacre/njm-tran/

Herbert Bix. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Episode 207 - Nanking Part 3

What if your local sports fans attempted a coup

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Sources:
Procopius: JUSTINIAN SUPPRESSES THE NIKA REVOLT, 532

JB Bury. The History of the Later Roman Empire

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-nika-revolt-1788557

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/circusmaximus/nika.html

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/ancient-history/war-terraces-nika-riots-mm.html?safari=1

Episode 208 - The Nika Riots

The founder of Scientology had a very stupid naval career 

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Russel Miller. Bare-Faced Messiah

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/warhero/intro.htm

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/primary-sources-l-ron-hubbard-leaves-the-navy

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/30/l-ron-hubbard/?safari=1

Episode 209 - The Hilarious Military Career of L Ron Hubbard

Part 1/5. Paraguay picks a fight with an entire continent.

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Produced by Nate Bethea and Sarah Sahim

Sources:
Leuchars, Chris. To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance

Kolinski, Charles. Independence or Death: The story of the Paraguayan War

Whigham, Thomas L. The Road to Armageddon: Paraguay versus the Triple Alliance, 1866–70.

Episode 210 - The War of the Triple Alliance Part 1: Night Demons

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