This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 37/36 "Duel in Texas" (テキサスの攻防), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the early Classical Greek armor that may have inspired the design of the Gyan, Westerns in Japan, and... dueling in Texas.

Special Guests this week: Sean Michael Chin and Wen Wang.

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- Reddit /r/AskHistorians thread on the linothorax.

- Ancient Chinese paper armor.

- Linothorax reconstruction project and a New Yorker article about the reconstruction project.

- How did Phalanxes function in battle?

- Articles on Hoplite warfare:

Krentz, Peter. “The Nature of Hoplite Battle.” Classical Antiquity, vol. 4, no. 1, 1985, pp. 50–61. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25010823.

VAN WEES, HANS. “The Arms, Armor, and Iconography of Early Greek Hoplite Warfare.” Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece, edited by GREGORY F. VIGGIANO and DONALD KAGAN, Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 57–73. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2855dr.8.

- IMDB page and description from the Japan Society of Daisogen no Watadori / Plains Wanderer (1960).

- The interview with Seijun Suzuki, director of Shottogan no Otoko / Sandanju no Otoko / Man with a Shotgun (1961), is from this book:

Desjardins, Chris. Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film. I.B. Tauris, 2005.

- IMDB page for Koya no Toseinin (1968).

- An article from an Australian magazine discuss the filming of Koya no Toseinin in Australia, including interviews with the lead actor and some of the production staff:

"DODGE CITY, Goonoo Goonoo-style" The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) 15 May 1968: 4. Web. 20 Mar 2019 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48531687.

- The book that introduced me to the term "Eastern Westerns," as well as their prevalence:

Teo, Stephen. Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and inside Hollywood. Routledge, 2017.

- Texas State Historical Association article on dueling.

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- Collection of Spanish language articles about dueling in Uruguay, including its ban in 1992 and calls to reinstate it.

- Uruguay's Ex-President wants to reinstate dueling.

- The poem in this week's memorial is Su Shi's First Ode on the Red Cliff. This link has the poem in the original Chinese and the English translation, with calligraphy.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 35/34 "The Glory of Solomon" (ソロモン攻略戦) and 36/35 "Big Zam's Last Stand" (恐怖!機動ビグ·ザム), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the Solomon Islands campaigns and related battles in the Pacific during WWII, Archimedes' heat ray, and weaponized asteroids.

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- Source for the quote at the end of Thom's research, touching on what it was like to have been there:

Robert L. Eichelberger, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo, P-47 Press, 2018.

- Detailed list (with map!) of naval battles during the Solomon Islands Campaign.

- Source on the strategy around Rabaul:

John Miller, Jr., Carthweel: The Reduction of Rabaul, Office of the Chief Military History, Department of the Army, Washington DC, 1959.

- "Combat Narratives: Solomon Islands Campaign: I The Landing in the Solomons," from the Office of Naval Intelligence, Publications Branch, U.S. Navy, 1943.

- "Withdrawal from Guadalcanal: Abandoning the Island of Death."

- Wiki article on the Guadalcanal evacuation.

- Shorter article about Guadalcanal. Contains the excellent summing up of the whole Southwest Pacific campaign: "American losses were significant, but Japanese losses were devastating."

- "IN PURSUIT OF DECISIVE ACTION: AIR POWER’S IMPACT ON THE GUADALCANAL CAMPAIGN"

- Not discussed in our episode but vitally important: the indigenous perspective on the war in the Solomon Islands.

- Wiki article on the Bougainville counterattack.

- Wiki aritcle on Cactus Air Force.

- Overview of the Siege of Syracuse and Archimedes' heat ray, including attempts to replicate the heat ray.

- The page for the MIT student-led attempt to replicate the heat ray, including the one done with Myth Busters.

- Description of the Myth Busters episode that did another attempt to replicate the heat ray.

- On deflecting asteroids and using them as weapons.

- "Kinetic Bombardment" and "rods from god".

- The song from this week's memorial is Without Redemption, by Kai Engel.

- Latin text of Book 12 of the Aeneid.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 34 (33 in the US), "A Fateful Encounter" ("宿命の出会い"), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on O'Neill cylinders, a review of Lagrange points, neutral countries in WWII, the Battle of the River Plate and the hunt for the Graf Spee, and the term "red tape."

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- About Gerard O'Neill, and about his book, "The High Frontier."

- An article on real space colony designs, concept art, and more art and info on O'Neill space cyclinders.

- Discussion of Lagrange points in Gundam and in our world.

- Article about increasing critical examination of the actions of neutral countries during WWII.

- How neutral countries maintain their neutrality.

- Swiss neutrality, and the recent (early 2000s) independent report analyzing Switzerland's impact on WWII.

- Swedish neutrality.

- Hague Convention concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War.

- About the Graf Spee ship.

- Wiki page on the Battle of the River Plate and "The Trap of Montevideo."

- Book on naval warfare in WWII, includes section on the Battle of the River Plate:

The Great Sea War: The Story of Naval Action in World War II, E.B. Potter, Fleet-Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pickle Partners Publishing, 2015.

- Book about the battle itself:

The Battle of the River Plate: The Hunt for the German Pocket Battleship Graf Spee (2d Ed.), Dudley Pope, 2005, McBooks Press.

- Wiki page indicating that "red tape" originated in Spain, versus Quora page indicating that it originated in England.

- Japanese synonyms for "red tape.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 33 (32 in the US), "Farewell in Side 6" ("コンスコン強襲"), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Attachment Theory and Amuro's relationships with his parents, blast exposure, the polytrauma system, diagnostic criteria for PTSD, teen brain development, and what tinnitus has to do with depression.

We are joined by a special guest - Shar! Shar is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and our Clinical Psychology Consultant. You can find her on YouTube as Dr. Sharmander, on Instagram @dr_sharmander, and on Twitter @The_Sharmander.

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- Sources on Attachment Theory:

Ainsworth, M. D. S., Blehar, M. C., Waters, E., & Wall, S. (1978). Patterns of attachment: A psychological study of the strange situation. Hillside. NJ: Erlbaum. Armsden, GC, & Greenberg, MT (1987).

The inventory of parent and peer attachment: Individual differences and their relationship to psychological well-being in adolesence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 16, 427-454.

- Breakdown of damage from blast exposure.

- Polytrauma development in the VA.

- Diagnostic criteria for PTSD and a self-administer test.

- "Why teen brains suck" a.k.a. The teen brain: It’s just not grown up yet.. Knox, R. (2010). National Public Radio: Your Health. National Public Radio, 1.

- Tinnitus and depression.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 31 and 32 (30 and 31 in the US), "A Decoy in Space" ("ザンジバル,追撃!") and "Breakthrough" ("強行突破作戦"), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Itano Ichiro, possible inspirations for the Zakrello mobile armor (including psychological warfare, Japan's involvement in the Korean War, and "Tiger Tanks"!), and the physics of why Amuro blacks out when the Gundam grabs hold of the Bigro.

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- Itano's wikipedia page (in Japanese).

- Video compilation of examples of the 'Itano Circus.'

- Interviews with Itano: from a Q&A at Animazement 2012, an article that originally appeared in SFX Total Anime #3, 2010, and an article that originally appeared in NEO magazine #69, 2010.

- About psychological warfare (psyware) in the Korean War.

- Sources on Japanese involvement in the Korean War (especially note Korean-descended people in Japan who volunteered to fight for the South Korean army, or sabotaged the war effort to help North Korea). While Japan's involvement is often characterized as purely economic (including acting as a rear-base), there was significant direct participation.

- Sources on the 1st China-America Provisional Tank Group in WW2.

- Iraj's explanation (with calculations!) of the physics behind Amuro blacking out in that fight with the Bigro.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 29 and 30 (28 and 29 in the US), "Tragedy in Jaburo" and "A Wish for War Orphans," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: orphans, orphanages, and childcare in Japan, the history of robots in Western cinema, Operation Gunnerside, visual inspiration and references, and the St. Nazaire raid.

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- Our sources on life in Japan's orphanages:

Japan Info. (Jun 17, 2016). What Challenges Do Children in Japan’s Orphanages Face? (Culture, Society)

Quora (Answers) (Oct 23, 2015). What is it like to be raised in a Japanese orphanage? Karen Ma.

The Japan Times News (May 1, 2014). Japan’s orphans neglected: HRW by Tomoshiro Osaki.

- About adult adoption in Japan.

- Japan's WWII war orphans, in the home islands and in China.

- Ron briefly mentioned the Tekketsu Kinotai, young boys who were conscripted into the Japanese army to defend Okinawa. We talked about this in episode 1.2, when we discussed the battle of Okinawa, and there's more info here:

A War to be won (Apr 2, 2016). Okinawan boys of the Tekketsu Kinnotai, Japan’s last ditch weapon (WWII History Articles)

- For the history of daycare/childcare in Japan, we consulted this article:

CHUNG, BYUNG-HO. “LABOR-MARKET DEMAND FOR WORKING MOTHERS AND THE EVOLUTION OF DAY CARE SYSTEM IN JAPAN.” International Journal of Sociology of the Family, vol. 18, no. 2, 1988, pp. 233–247. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23029742.

- Sources on film history, and specifically on robots in cinema:

Sarris, Andrew.

Dirks, Tim.

- These articles provide an overview of Operation Gunnerside.

- An interview with Neal Bascomb, author of The Winter Fortress, a book that "sets this daring sabotage mission in the context of the high-stakes race between the Germans and the Allies to create a nuclear weapon."

- The New York Times obituary for Joachim Ronneberg, the leader of the Gunnerside raid.

- The evolution of diving suits (relevant for appearances of amphibious mobile suits).

- The wiki page for Kappa, and art depicting the Kappa: image 1, image 2.

- The wiki page for Kamaitachi, and interpretations of how they might look: image 1, image 2, image 3.

- Alien 'Zarab,' possible inspiration for the Z'Gok.

- Charles H. Townes, inventor of the maser.

- About phonons, and an abandoned patent for a phonon maser.

- Wiki article on Sasers.

- Sources on the St. Nazaire raid.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 27 and 28 (26 and 27 in the US), "A Spy on Board" and "Across the Atlantic Ocean," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: possible inspiration for the G-Sky EZ, the Cape Verde Islands, famous pro-wrestling tag-teams that may have inspired the Gogg mobile suits, language and culture notes, and submarine warfare in WWII.

- A reference on the Allied Phonetic Alphabet (as opposed to the in-use-now Nato Phonetic Alphabet), in which "E" = "Easy."

- All about Sherman tank variants, including the "Easy Eight."

- Explanation of canards (what they are, and their function on a plane), and the Rutan VariEze homebuilt aircraft (an example of a place with canards).

- Overview of the Cape Verde independence movemement. Cape Verde had only recently gained it's independence (1975) when Gundam was released.

- Pro-Wrestling Wiki's history of the National Wrestling Alliance, the international pro-wrestling organization that unified US and Japanese wrestling.

- Biographies, history, and some video of the Wild Samoans.

- Family tree showing the extended Anoa'i family history in wrestling and how the Wild Samoans are related to (among others) Dwayne Johnson.

- Real sumo headbutt spear attacks: photo 1, photo 2, photo 3.

- Wiki pages on Rikidozan and Toyonobori, and a profile of them as a tag-team.

- Another profile of Rikidozan, a photo of him standing over a defeated Kimura, and an interview with The Destroyer about his matches with Rikidozan.

- Overviews of the Battle of the Atlantic, and of submarine warfare in WWII.

- Alfred Thayer Mahan, and his influence on naval tactics.

- Technologies used to combat submarines: huff-duff (high-frequency direction-finding), FIDO (the Mark 24 mine), MAD (magnetic anomaly detector), and the Leigh Light.

The Miharu tribute music is a 1926 Recording of Londonderry Air by Leo Rowsome, hosted by Irish Traditional Music Archive / Taisce Cheol Dúchais Éireann. The text is the lyrics to "Eily Dear," written by Fred Weatherly.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episode 26 (25 in the US), "Char Returns," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: war balloons, top secret information, the battle of Sekigahara, naval mines, and possible aesthetic influences for mobile suit design.

- Overview of the history of military ballooning, and of incendiary balloons specifically.

- More detailed information about the Civil War-era Balloon Corps.

- Explanation and photo of barrage balloons.

- Overview of Japan's Fu-Go balloon program, and the news story detailing the 2014 discovery of an unexploded incendiary from a Fu-Go. CORRECTION: I stated that I thought this happened in Oregon. It actually happened in British Columbia, Canada.

- Great explanation of how images can be sent via radio waves.

- Wikpedia page on classified information (levels, differences between different countries, etc.), and an article which discusses what happens when people reveal classified information.

- The US National Archive FAQ on identifying and handling classified records.

- Two overviews of the Battle of Sekigahara (the second includes lots of images of art depicting the battle).

- Wikipedia pages on Kikkawa and Kobayakawa.

- Detailed information on naval mines, including their history, types, and the technology and mechanisms involved, from the Minewarfare & Clearance Diving Officers' Association, NavWeaps (Naval Weapons, Naval Technology and Naval Reunions website), and the Worldwide Independent Inventors Assoication (archive).

- Pictures of E. Honda's "Sumo Torpedo" headbutt attack and a real one, another sumo photo, and a photo of the 'Spear' attack in pro wrestling.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episodes 24 and 25 (23 and 24 in the US), "The Black Tri-Stars" and "Odessa Day," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: kendo armor and footwork, Japanese spies, rollerblades, plane formations and maneuvers, droop snoots, Japanese body-language and gestures, hydrogen bombs, and military funeral rituals.

- Explainer on kendo armor, an image of the 'men' (helmet), and an image of the 'men' with all it's component parts labeled.

- Beginners guide to kendo (footwork description on p. 11), and an explanation of kendo competition.

- Photo of a kendoka (kendo practitioner) in full armor, looking a little like a Dom mobile suit.

- Wiki page and Radio New Zealand piece about Heenan, the RAF pilot who was spying for Japan in Singapore.

- About the fall of Singapore.

- Forum post explaining how Aircraft Recognition Codes worked during WW2 - using differently colored lights instead of the modern radio-based IFF codes. Post was written by Senior Master Sergeant Gene Hellickson (U.S. Air Force 1965-1969, Air National Guard 1972-1988).

- About No. 62 Squadron RAF, the squadron that bore the brunt of the attack following Heenan's treachery, and that we later re-formed as a supply squadron.

- The history of in-line skates, including the facts that they are 1) Pretty old, and 2) Rollerblade, Inc. wasn't founded until 1980. Either way, they are probably not the inspiration for the Dom's movement.

- Definition of touch-and-go flying drill.

- Description of formations, along with their development and use over time, especially during WWI and WWII.

- More detailed descriptions of Vic/Vee and Finger-Four formations, and Thach weave maneuver.

- Wiki article on snoot drooping technology, and a Quora thread with an excellent explanation of the reasons for drooping that snoot on a fighter plane.

- Picture of the Sukhoi Su-27 'Flanker' with its characteristic banana-shaped profile, and one of the Mikoyan MiG-29 'Fulcrum' with its snoot pointed groundward.

- All about the Fairey Delta 2, another droop-snoot plane.

- What is look down/shoot down radar?

- Concorde snoot drooping video (snoot drooping begins at 5:10 and goes until 8:50).

- Photos, video, and descriptions of Japanese gestures.

- A great reference for Japanese gestures, with visual references.

- An ANN article that briefly describes 'dekotsun,' an affectionate forehead poke, which we think is what Matilda does to Amuro when she calls him "cheeky."

- History of the battlefield cross (rifle stuck into the ground, with helmet on top), and a wikipedia article that contains an excerpt from the US Army Field Manual, describing the battlefield cross as used in memorials.

- Text of Ode of Remembrance, a section from a longer poem, For the Fallen, by Laurence Binyon. It is often used in WWI memorial ceremonies, and we use it (with a modified last line) in our memorial for Lt. Matilda.

The music in our memorial tribute for Lt. Matilda is Mother's Mourning by Dee Yan-Key.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Gundam episodes 22 and 23 (21 and 22 in the US), "The Trap of M'Quve" and "Matilda's Rescue," discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on: Japanese sentō (public bathhouses), all-plastic wristwatches, bauxite mining, gallium, the bombing of Darwin, a famous POW-camp escape-attempt, plastic explosives, Lt. Matilda's voice actress, and smoke bombs.

- An overview of Japanese sentō.

- Additional articles about the history of sentō (these include some great artwork and photographs).

- a brief history of the Japanese "system-bath" - baths in private homes that for many people replaced regular use of the local sentō.

- For the connotations of nudity in Japanese media, we consulted this paper:

"Nudity in Japanese visual media: A cross-cultural observation."

- And our source on the prevalence of indoor plumbing in the US as of 1940 is:

Lutz, James D. “Lest We Forget, a Short History of Housing in the United States.” American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2004, aceee.org/files/proceedings/2004/data/papers/SS04_Panel1_Paper17.pdf.

- the story of the ahead-of-its-time, "all-plastic" Tissot IDEA 2001 and its competition from Japan.

- general information on the history, types, and uses of plastic explosives.

- A map of Bauxite mining operations around the world.

- Video of the gallium-spoon trick.

- Overview of the Bombing of Darwin, and additional detail specifically about the Allies' strategy in the South Pacific.

- The story of Matthias Ulungura, who captured Japanese Zero-pilot Toyoshima Haijame.

- A photo of Aboriginal dancers at the ceremony to unveil the cairn to commemorate Matthias Ulungura. Plaque reads: "This memorial was erected by the Northern Territory Government in recognition of Matthias Ulungura 1921-1980 Who, unarmed, on 19th Feb. 1942 on Melville Island captured the first Japanese prisoner of war (a zero pilot) to be taken on Australian soil."

- More about the Cowra Breakout, a Japanese-POW escape-attempt, which Thom parallels to Cozun's attempted escape from the White Base.

- The history of smoke screens and an example of their use in a specific battle in the Mediterranean during WWII.

- Toda Keiko (Lt. Matilda's voice actor), performing as Ayu Akemi - this is her first Enka single.

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