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A Moluccan terror group took over a train in the Netherlands, leading to the longest train hijacking in history. It only ends when Dutch Commandos launch one of the worst rescue operations in European history.

Sources:

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9789048555796-004/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOopTs6kSVyzglNe9ZE0NzwO_2weL5McjhDU6iWQ3mOsH7_gDPyjF

https://www.sbs.com.au/language/dutch/en/article/40-years-on-questions-remain-the-extraordinary-story-of-the-1977-dutch-train-siege/4y5ex2171

https://nltimes.nl/2017/05/30/dutch-govt-releases-transcriptions-1977-train-hijacking

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2018/07/court-clears-marines-for-killings-in-1977-moluccan-train-hijacking/

https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/hansina-uktolseja-1955-1977/

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/16/archives/20day-ordeal-aboard-the-hijacked-dutch-train-as-described-by-those.html

https://nltimes.nl/2018/07/25/dutch-state-accountable-1977-train-hijackers-deaths-court-rules

https://nltimes.nl/2018/05/08/moluccan-train-hijackers-die-new-witnesses-say

https://web.archive.org/web/20070716051414/http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article721950.ece/Herdenking_voor_kapers_van_trein_bij_De_Punt_1977_

https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=Treinkaping+bij+De+Punt&page=7&sortfield=datedesc&cql%5B%5D=%28dategte+%2201-01-1977%22%29&cql%5B%5D=%28datelte+%2231-12-1977%22%29&coll=ddd&redirect=true&identifier=ddd:010959646:mpeg21:a0156&resultsidentifier=ddd:010959646:mpeg21:a0156&rowid=2

https://nltimes.nl/2014/11/20/unarmed-hijackers-killed-train-hijacking

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2017/10/marines-in-court-over-shooting-of-activists-in-1977-de-punt-train-hijacking/

https://apnews.com/general-news-b390fa1dad6147ab9179c262a49f80b4

https://time.com/archive/6848782/terrorists-the-commandos-strike-at-dawn/

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George Patton launches a very badly thought-out mission to rescue his son-in-law from a POW camp.

Sources:

http://oflag64.us/ewExternalFiles/whitaker-richard-tfb-article.pdf

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/costly-failure-pattons-raid-liberate-hammelburg

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/task-force-baum-george-pattons-controversial-mission-to-rescue-his-son-in-law-from-a-pow-camp.html

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/witnessing-pattons-failure-a-prisoners-view-of-the-task-force-baum-raid/

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Once upon a time, the British Navy built one of the worst submarines ever put to sea and then promptly smashed them into one another repeatedly.

Sources:

N.S Nash. K Boat Catastrophe: Eight Ships and Five Collisions.

Edwyn Gray. Disasters of the Deep: A Comprehensive Survey of Submarine Accidents & Disasters

Anthony Preston. World's Worst Warships

https://web.archive.org/web/20150924120339/http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/issues/archives/issue_49/KforKatastrophe.html

https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/the-battle-of-may-island-january-1917-and-k-class-submarines-of-the-first-world-war/

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The conclusion to the Armenian Genocide series.

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Part 3/4

For full bibliography see episode 1 show notes.

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Joe and Tom take the stage at Rich Mix to tell the story about the world's first military high speed train chase. Get the whole episoide on Patreon here! https://www.patreon.com/posts/126771552

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Part 2/4

Sources:

Ronald Grigor Suny. They Can Live in the Desert and Nowhere Else.

Peter Bakalian. Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response

Taner Akçam. Killing Orders: Talat Pasha's Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide

Taner Akçam. The Spirit of the Laws: The Plunder of Wealth in the Armenian Genocide

Taner Akçam. A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

Taner Akçam. The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire

Vakahn Dadrian. German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity.

Khatchig Mouradian. Genocide and Humanitarian Resistance in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1916

Simon Payaslian. The History of Armenia: From the Origins to the Present.