Holy shit, when you have to mortar a freakin single shot rifle. You know combat's been intense.

During 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.

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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

Episode 157 - The Mk 14 Torpedo and How the US Hated Their Own Submariners

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Sources:
https://www.nps.gov/aleu/learn/historyculture/index.htm
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/wwii/wwii-pacific/aleutian-islands-campaign.html
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/aleutian-islands-attack-1942
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/today-in-history/forgotten-campaign-wwii-aleutian-islands-campaign.html
https://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-aleutian-islands-recapturing-attu/

Episode 170 - The Aleutian Islands Campaign

On this episode Joe and Nick fly off the deep end talking about the origins and stupidity of one of the internet's favorite military conspiracy theories. 

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Episode 22 - Jade Helm

On this episode Joe is joined by Justin Rose. Justin is a Marine and US Army Veteran and host of the Everything is Awful Podcast to talk about the dangers of Historical Revisionism and the bastardization of facts in the name of politics. PragerU manages to do all of these things in Youtube videos that last less than 5 minutes.

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Episode 30 - PragerU is Bad for America

On this episode Joe is joined by Army Veteran and one of the characters from The Hooligans of Kandahar, Mike Huang to talk about how a number of people ended up volunteering for the German Army during World War Two from a guy who ended up becoming a US Army Green Beret, the son of the founding dictator of Taiwan, and a poor Korean conscript who ended up fighting for everybody on accident. 

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Episode 32- Everyone is a Nazi!

On this episode we dive into some of the history that caused the 1916 Easter Rising like stealing Irish freedom with the Act of Union, extracting wealth, colonialism, and outright genocide. 

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Sources: 
Tim Pat Coogan. 1916: The Easter Rising

Episode 47 - The Easter Rising Part 1: The Wolfe Tone

The Anglo Zulu War Part 2. In the conclusion of our series the war goes from Rourke's Drift to Eshowe before killing an Imperial Prince and burning the Zulu Kingdom to the ground.

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Episode 71 - Anglo Zulu War Part 2: The End of a Kingdom

Joe is joined by the co host of the What a Hell of a Way to Die Podcast Francis Horton to discuss the worst training exercise in military history. 

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Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/d-days-deadly-dress-rehearsal
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/exercise-tiger.html
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/28/151590212/operation-tiger-d-days-disastrous-rehearsal
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-27185893

Episode 74 - Exercise Tiger Ft. Francis Horton

Sources:
https://nationalpost.com/tag/kevin-patrick-dawes/
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/syria-isis-kevin-dawes

Episode 93 - Kevin Patrick Dawes

For our 100th episode we answered questions from fans. Everything from the great tortilla debate to Jane Fonda tune in and listen to our probably terrible answers.

Episode 100 - The 100th Episode Special

Tom Cruise is the worst pirate ever.

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