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The United States Army Chemical Corps conducted classified human medical experiments at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland between 1955 and 1975. During the twenty-year span, the US Army Chemical Corps exposed approximately 7,000 volunteer soldiers to over 250 chemicals ranging from alcohol, LSD, nerve agents, to simple caffeine in research focused on disabling enemy troops in combat scenarios. Strap in because this is going to get trippy.

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Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten by Dr. James S. Ketchum

CDC | Facts About Lewisite

CDC | Facts About Sulfur Mustard

Court-Filed Documents | VVA v. CIA (edgewoodtestvets.org)

Chemical weapons testing at Edgewood Arsenal through the years (baltimoresun.com)

Edgewood/Aberdeen Experiments - Public Health (va.gov)

Long-Term Health Effects of Army Test Subjects (dtic.mil)

www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=2058&page=1

Operation Delirium | The New Yorker

Vietnam Veterans of America et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. (edgewoodtestvets.org)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fDAOFgye1M

This week we are joined by the Australian Military History Pod host, Warwick. In this special episode, we will talk about the horrific Sandakan Death Marches. One of the many consequences that followed after the Commonwealth forces surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle for Singapore in 1942. Learn about the Battle for Singapore, Hellfire Pass, and the series of forced marches in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau. Prisoners of War were forced to march even whilst dealing with serious illnesses such as Beriberi and Malaria. Those who stopped or could not complete the march were either shot or bayoneted to death. 

The Sandakan Death Marches cost the lives of 2,500 Allied POWs. Only six Australian soldiers survived, and that's only because they managed to escape.

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Battle for Singapore: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/E84308

Remembering the Fall of Singapore:

https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/fall-of-singapore

https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/resources/bitter-fate-australians-malaya-singapore

https://www.awmlondon.gov.au/battles/singapore

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/lismore/an-end-to-war-japanese-soldiers-account-of-borneo/news-story/a734870561b3da67674490c67431be8c

On January 8th, 1966, at 0930h Indochina Time, salvos of American artillery, napalm, and explosive ordnance from B-52s rained down on an underground Viet Cong base believed to be a political headquarters. The location was the Ho Bo Woods of the Binh Duong Province in South Vietnam, 70 km north of Ho Chi Minh City. It was about to become host to a seven-day joint mission executed by the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. But, these allies soon discovered that the assumed headquarters held a much more surprising secret: a sophisticated, underground logistical tunnel system spanning over 200km. 

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1965 - Vietnam - 1 RAR Association Incorporated

The Dispatch - Google News Archive Search

Ho Bo Woods, Vietnam War, 1960s - Film 1017413 - YouTube

Ho Chi Minh City 1966 Past Weather (Vietnam) - WeatherSpark

Viet Cong Tunnels and Traps - Platoon: The True Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsLE6EtrvhM

John M. Carland, Stemming the Tide, May 1965–October 1966, United States Army in Vietnam (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2000), 169–173, Stemming the Tide, May 1965 to October 1966 (army.mil).

Vietnam: A Television History; Operation Crimp, 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. Iron Triangle, Cu Chi district. U.S. soldiers exploring Vietcong cave; Hau Nghia Province. (wgbh.org)

1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment | Australian War Memorial (awm.gov.au)

https://www.historyhit.com/tunnel-warfare-during-world-war-one/

https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/tunnel-rats-and-flame-throwers-joe-cazey-vietnam-war-digital-story-and-oral-history

https://www.thenmusa.org/articles/tunnel-rats-of-the-vietnam-war/

In May of 1918, after years of resistance against foreign rule dating back to ancient times, and even genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, Armenia won its independence. In this episode we will explore some of Armenia's history, Russian and Ottoman politics in the Caucasus Region, and visit the battlefield of Armenia's freedom. Join us this week as we take a trip 104 years into the past and visit the once chaotic and war-torn nation of Armenia. You will even get to hear Sam say hodge-podge.

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Armenia: At the Crossroads - Robert Krikorian, Joseph Masih - Google Books

Armenia : the survival of a nation : Walker, Christopher J., 1942- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Caucasian Battlefields: A History Of The Wars On The Turco Caucasian Border 1828-1921 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Epilogue - History of Armenia (armenica.org)

Gurko Vasiliĭ Iosifovich. Memories & Impressions of War and Revolution in Russia, 1914-1917. London: John Murray, 2010.

Mehmet Vehib Pasha (Kaçı) - Turkey in the First World War (turkeyswar.com)

Musa Gurbuz, “TURKISH MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN THE CAUCASUS FOLLOWING THE 1917 RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: THE BATTLE OF SARDARABAD AND ITS POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES,” Review of Armenian Studies 19-20 (2009): pp. 107-120, https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/777679.

The significance of the Battle of Sardarabad (1918) – VEMKAR

SARTARABAD - KOHAR | ՍԱՐԴԱՐԱՊԱՏ - ԳՈՀԱՐ | Live in Lebanon 2015 - YouTube

Strachan, Hew. The First World War. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2013.

Sweetman, John. Tannenberg 1914. London: Cassell, 2002.

Join us this week as we discover the clandestine missions of the United States Air Force 20th Special Operations Squadron in Vietnam and Operation Pony Express. Operation Pony Express was one of the most successful operations conducted during the Vietnam War, and the efforts of the United States Air Force 20th SOS went beyond the borders of Vietnam in direct opposition to communist pursuits in the whole of Southeast Asia.

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Anderson, David L. The Columbia History of the Vietnam War. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2017.

Haas, Michael E., and Dale K. Robinson. Air Commando! :1950-1975: Twenty-Five Years at the Tip of the Spear. Hurlburt Field, FL: Air Force Special Operations Command, 1994.

Leary, William M. “CIA Air Operations in Laos, 1955-1974 Supporting the ‘Secret War.’” Studies in Intelligence, 1999, 71–86. https://www.cia.gov/static/b0ded4a88b63ece00c9eb41369812fda/CIA-Air-Ops-Laos.pdf.

Mullen, Max, and Keith Mullen. Pony Express Pilot Max Mullen’s Flight Log December 1967. Keith Mullen, May 20, 2020.

Mutza, Wayne. Green Hornets: The History of the U.S. Air Force 20th Special Operations Squadron. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2007.

“T. O. 1H-3(C)E-1 Flight Manual USAF Series CH-3E and HH-3E Helicopters.” United States Air Force Printing Office, September 1, 1973.

“TM 55-1520-210-10 OPERATOR’S MANUAL ARMY MODEL UH-1H/V HELICOPTERS.” Washington D.C.: Headquarters Department of the Army, February 15, 1988.

Vergun, David. “Grueling 38-Hour Struggle in Jungle Leads to Medal of Honor.” www.army.mil, September 15, 2014. https://www.army.mil/article/132963/grueling_38_hour_struggle_in_jungle_leads_to_medal_of_honor.

Vietnam Outline Map Without Political Boundaries. Mapsofworld.com. Accessed December 17, 2021. https://www.mapsofworld.com/vietnam/vietnam-outline-map.html.

Whitlow, Robert H., and Jack Shulimson. US Marines in Vietnam. Www.marines.mil. History and Museums Division Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps, 1982. https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/US%20Marines%20in%20Vietnam%20An%20Expanding%20War%201966%20%20PCN%2019000308600_1.pdf?ver=2012-10-11-164136-230.

In this series' final part, we will discuss the Dunkirk Evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo. The miracle of 338,000 Allied soldiers rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk over nine days.

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https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches/

Join Mike and I this week as we discuss Germany’s 1940 invasion of Belgium and the Western Front. We follow the British Expeditionary Force and their Allies’ numerous counteroffensives against the Wehrmacht in the Battle of Boulogne and the Siege of Calais. Tune in and learn about the failed Allied counteroffensives before the evacuation at Dunkirk. 

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Belgian American Educational Foundation (1941), The Belgian Campaign and the Surrender of the Belgian Army, 10–28 May 1940 (Third ed.), University of Michigan

"Deep Defences, Belgian Fortifications, May 1940". www.niehorster.org. Retrieved 2020-07-08.

Grehan, John. Dunkirk: Nine Days That Saved an Army: A Day-By-Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation, Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uql/detail.action?docID=5434866.

Keegan, John (2005), The Second World War, New York: Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-303573-2

https://totallyhistory.com/battle-of-belgium/

https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/we-shall-fight-on-the-beaches/

Former United States Army Soldier Israel Keyes became a terrifying and meticulous serial killer who evaded police detection for over a decade. With an arsenal of kill caches buried across the United States, ready to be unearthed at his pleasure, Keyes terrorized unsuspecting victims with blatant disregard for human life. Join Mike and Sam for this special AWOL episode that is sure to leave you sleeping with one eye open.

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FBI Records: The Vault — Israel Keyes

https://www.legacyalaska.com/obituaries/Samantha-Koenig?obId=19079866

https://vsp.vermont.gov/unsolved/missing/a/currier

https://nypost.com/2019/06/30/how-a-vermont-couple-ended-up-in-a-serial-killers-gruesome-chain-of-carnage/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-keyes-fbi-evidence-serial-killer-unknown-victims-48-hours/

Israel Keyes' Ransom Photo of Samantha Koenig (thecinemaholic.com)

Samantha Koenig: Body of missing Alaska barista believed found in Matanuska Lake, police say - CBS News

Serial Killer Israel Keyes' Suicide Letter Is Creepy Ode to Murder - ABC News (go.com)

Tune in final episode of this two-part series on Operation Iceberg, the American invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa, the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific and final battle of World War II.

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Appleman, Roy E., James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, and John Stevens. United States Army in World War II The War in the Pacific Okinawa: The Last Battle. History.army.mil. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1948. https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/index.htm#contents.

Giangreco, D. M. Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan 1945-1947. Read.amazon.com. Naval Institute Press, 2020. https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B07FRJGY4R&language=en-US.

Head, William. “Raymond Spruance.” World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. ABC-CLIO Solutions, 2021. worldatwar2-abc-clio-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/Search/Display/872790.

Huber, Thomas M. Okinawa 1945. Havertown, PA: Casemate Pub., 2003.

Task Force 58. Taskforce58.Org. Accessed September 19, 2021. https://www.taskforce58.org/task-force-58-task-force-38/.

Yahara, Hiromichi, and Gibney Frank B. The Battle for Okinawa. New York: Wiley, 1997.

Tune in to part one of a two-part series on Operation Iceberg, the American invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa, the largest amphibious landing in the Pacific and final battle of World War II.

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Sources:

Appleman, Roy E., James M. Burns, Russell A. Gugeler, and John Stevens. United States Army in World War II The War in the Pacific Okinawa: The Last Battle. History.army.mil. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1948. https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/okinawa/index.htm#contents.

Giangreco, D. M. Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan 1945-1947. Read.amazon.com. Naval Institute Press, 2020. https://read.amazon.com/?asin=B07FRJGY4R&language=en-US.

Head, William. “Raymond Spruance.” World at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. ABC-CLIO Solutions, 2021. worldatwar2-abc-clio-com.ezproxy2.apus.edu/Search/Display/872790.

Huber, Thomas M. Okinawa 1945. Havertown, PA: Casemate Pub., 2003.

Task Force 58. Taskforce58.Org. Accessed September 19, 2021. https://www.taskforce58.org/task-force-58-task-force-38/.

Yahara, Hiromichi, and Gibney Frank B. The Battle for Okinawa. New York: Wiley, 1997.