Fury did it really poorly, though. Fury itself had a long-barrel 76mm which would have easily defeated a Tiger's frontal armour. (the Tiger in that scene was also uncharacteristically not targeting the 76, first, despite that being SOP for german tankers at that stage)

For what it's worth, the Sherman has spent decades getting its rep shit on by Wehraboos who bought wholesale into the myths of superior German armor, and it's finally starting to get its redemption arc in the public eye. Sherman is a great tank! And we actually built enough fucking parts for ours, too!

"A nation for a nation"

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sources:
https://apnews.com/article/tel-aviv-international-news-israel-ap-top-news-69cb4cdfab7d416a968b95aef87d18c1
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-an-eye-for-an-eye-jews-who-sought-to-kill-germans-in-revenge-for-the-holocaust-1.8094962
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/26/second.world.war
Lang, Berel (1996). "Holocaust Memory and Revenge: The Presence of the Past". Jewish Social Studies

Episode 146 - The Jewish Avengers

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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

Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper. 

*correction, England has won a World Cup.  In 1966.

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Episode 186 - The Greco-Italian War Part 2: The Battle of Crete

On this episode we talk about the Bonus Army! A rag tag Army of unarmed WW1 veterans to marched on DC to demand the money they were owed. If you think the government has a level headed reaction to this you must be new to our show. Joe gets emotional and goes on a communist rant while Nick fails in his attempts to reel him back to reality.

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episode 8 - The Bonus Army

Episode 9 brings us our first guest! Tom is an Officer in the United States Army Armor Corps, history graduate, and anonymous shitposter on twitter. On this episode Joe and Tom talk about the stupid history of German WW2 armor development and how it went from revolutionary to comically insane in a short amount of time. We also discuss the myths and legends surrounding German tanks and battlefield prowess that has managed to follow the soldiers of the 3rd Reich for nearly 100 years after their fall.

We end the episode talking about the stupid things we manange to get ourselves into on #natsec twitter and how we have both managed to have a run in with General Abrams.

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Episode 9 - German Armor Fails of WWII Ft. Tom

It's our first ever series so buckle up as we talk about the beginnings of the War of 1812 between a newborn America and British Empire. 

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Episode 16 - War of 1812 Part 1: A Cannonball to the Face

The Ottoman Empire, fueled by Turkish Nationalism, launched a genocidal campaign of violence against their own Armenian subjects. 

This is the story of how the Armenian people struck back.

Sources: 
Bogosian, Eric. Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide. 2015. 

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Episode 101 - Soghomon Tehlirian: The Luger of Justice

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

The war ends and the world sets itself on course for nuclear hellfire. 

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Sources regarding propaganda discussed at the end of the show:
WARNING: This is explicit porn. In case you want to just read what a historian Tim Clark wrote about this piece when it appeared in  2013 exhibition, Shunga: Sex and pleasure in Japanese art, 1600-1900. 

 "Popular print culture in Japan was extensively mobilised to support the country’s war effort in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-5. This is a particularly savage piece of anti-Russian propaganda.A different (presumed earlier) version of the design was produced using different woodblocks. The flag at top left is Russian, the soldiers in the background are Russians fleeing, and the following dialogue appears with the two foreground figures:
[Russian:] (in Romanised script with katakana glosses) “I think I’m going to die!” (Watakushi mō shinisō desu)
[Japanese soldier:] “I’ll soon deliver the final blow…” (Sugu todome o sashite yarō)
[Russians:] “Quick, let’s run away!” (Hayaku nigero) "

 The original korean translation of the print that was found during researching was inaccurate. A full translation from japanese shows this is meant to show the japanese military "raping" the russian military. These prints were very common and popular, though technically illegal.  WARNING: https://media.britishmuseum.org/media/Repository/Documents/2014_11/8_12/317b80e3_54cc_4575_8936_a3dd00d07c11/mid_01361913_001.jpg

There is a non graphic link to further research on the changing japanese propaganda done by actual art historians and not our dumbasses:  https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/mar2008.html

Episode 122 - Russo - Japanese War Part 4: So long and thanks for all the imperialism

Life aboard a U-boat during WWII was horrible but thankfully short from all the dying. 

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Correction: During the show Joe says he couldn't find reports of U-Boat crews killing themselves. Someone pointed out it happened at least once in this incident: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zschech


Sources: 
Iron Coffins by Herbert Warner
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/horrors-of-serving-a-u-boat.html
https://warisboring.com/the-high-tech-toilet-that-destroyed-a-submarine/

Episode 124 - Life on a U-Boat was terrible

At the end of WWII a group of French POWs went looking for help and ended up taking part in one of the weirdest battles in military history. 

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Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32622651
https://www.historynet.com/the-battle-for-castle-itter.htm
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/itter-castle-strangest-battle-world-war-ii-152721

Episode 142 - Castle Itter

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Episode 9 - German Armor Fails of WWII Ft. Tom

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