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How 20,000 Birds Beat the Australian Army and Machine Guns
Recounts the 1932 Emu War in Western Australia, when a migration of around 20,000 emus devastated wheat farms during the Great Depression. Farmers, many of them WWI veterans, urged the government to deploy soldiers with machine guns to protect their crops. Despite the military’s efforts, the emus proved too fast, agile, and resilient, scattering before soldiers could take aim and earning a reputation for using “guerrilla tactics.” In the end, the operation was abandoned after heavy ammunition losses and widespread public ridicule, marking one of history’s most unusual and unsuccessful military campaigns.
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By Wild WondersRecounts the 1932 Emu War in Western Australia, when a migration of around 20,000 emus devastated wheat farms during the Great Depression. Farmers, many of them WWI veterans, urged the government to deploy soldiers with machine guns to protect their crops. Despite the military’s efforts, the emus proved too fast, agile, and resilient, scattering before soldiers could take aim and earning a reputation for using “guerrilla tactics.” In the end, the operation was abandoned after heavy ammunition losses and widespread public ridicule, marking one of history’s most unusual and unsuccessful military campaigns.
You can listen and download our episodes for free on more than 10 different platforms:
https://linktr.ee/wild_wonders1
Produced by:
https://www.podcaistudio.com/
You can listen and download our episodes for free on more than 10 different platforms:
https://linktr.ee/wild_wonders1
Produced by:
https://www.podcaistudio.com/