Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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The episode with the flag raising in it.

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A tiny speck of inhospitable black sand turns into hell on earth as tens of thousands of men slaughter one another over caves, bunkers, and mountains. Armed with explosives, flame throwers, napalm, and more naval gunfire than the Japanese had ever seen, US Marines struggle through one of the most horrific battles of the Pacific Campaign of WWII.

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SOURCES:

Toll, Ian W. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945

Allen, Robert E. The First Battalion of the 28th Marines on Iwo Jima: A Day-by-Day History from Personal Accounts and Official Reports, with Complete Muster Rolls.

Burrell, Robert S. "Breaking the Cycle of Iwo Jima Mythology: A Strategic Study of Operation Detachment"

Toland, John. The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945

Leckie, Robert. The Battle for Iwo Jima

Kakehashi, Kumiko. So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima

Wheeler, Richard. Iwo Jima.

Tatum, Chuck. Red Blood, Black Sand: With John Basilone on Iwo Jima

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The Spanish see the crowning of a French child king as an opportunity to invade. They deploy the Army of Flanders. Once mighty, but now reduced to being commanded by idiots and one man who was so old and sick that he had to be dragged around the battlefield in a chair.

SOURCES:

Ribas, Alberto Raúl Esteban. The Battle of Rocroi 1643: Clash of Seventeenth Century Superpowers.

Sanchez, Juan. "Paul Bernard de Fontaine (1576 – 1643), señor de Fougerolles, Conde del S.R.I."

Stephane Thion. Rocroi 1643: The Victory of Youth.

Welsh, William. Spanish Disaster at Rocroi. Late Winter 2012. Vol 13, No. 4

Jeremy Black, European Warfare, 1494-1660

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Once upon a time there was a supply convoy called PQ-17, loaded down with tons of supplies and heading to the Soviet Union. Over the course of several days the convoy was destroyed by a combination of terrible intelligence, fear of confrontation with the German Surface Fleet, and a commander with a brain tumor.

SOURCES:

Beesly, Patrick. Convoy PQ 17: A Study of Intelligence and Decision-Making

Bunker, John. Liberty Ships: The Ugly Ducklings of WWII

Hague, Arnold. The Allied Convoy System, 1939–1945: Its Organization, Defence and Operation.

Milton, Keith. Convoy PQ 17: A Story of Unprecedented Arctic Disaster. Military Heritage. June 2001. Volume 2, no. 6

Lippman, David. 'Convoy is to Scatter.' : Arctic Convoy Disaster. WWII History. Winter 2012. Volume 11, No. 1

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Joe is joined by AJ, Brian, and Josh from the Worst of All Possible Worlds to talk about the time a British trader got murdered by Samurai for being an asshole and sparked a war between the British and the Satsuma Domain.

SOURCES:

De Lange, William. The Namamugi Incident: The Murder that Sparked a War

Totman, Conrad. The collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868

Satow, Ernest. A Diplomat in Japan

Rennie, David Field. The British Arms in North China and Japan

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A half-blind Irish immigrant to the US freelance develops the first modern submarine with funds from the Fenian Brotherhood. This leads to a lot of arguments and a late-night submarine jacking.

SOURCES:

Davies, R. Nautilus: The Story of Man Under the Sea

Lyons, Chuck. The Holland Submarine. Military Heritage. August 2008. Vol 10, no. 1

Devoy Tells Story of First Submarine: Holland Warship Purchased for Clan-na-Gael, The Original Owners, by Harry Cunningham”, The Gaelic American, New York, 09 July 1927

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1935/august/fenian-ram

https://www.millrivertrail.com/learn/famous-stolen-submarine

https://web.archive.org/web/20121021174106/http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_19/holland2.htm