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naval incompetence, sharks, and suicide oh my! Support the show :https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/modern-ships/indianapolis.html https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/surviving-sinking-uss-indianapolis https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/sinking-ussindianapolis/narrative-of-the-circumstances.html https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23455951 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-worst-shark-attack-in-history-25715092/
During WWII partisans came in all shapes, sizes, and ages. And sometimes death was 15 years old and riding a bicycle. Listen to It Came From the Sea @fromtheseapod Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/nazi-germany-dutch-resistance-freddie-truus-oversteegen-hannie-schaft-a9188306.html https://www.history.com/news/dutch-resistance-teenager-killed-nazis-freddie-oversteegen Poldermans, Sophie. Seducing and Killing Nazis: Hannie, Truus and Freddie: Dutch Resistance Heroines of WWII
The conclusion of the Third Servile War Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys follow us on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lionsledbydonkeyspod
Rome really loves enslaving people. Spartacus disagrees. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for all related episodes: Appian. Civil Wars. Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. "The Life of Crassus." "The Life of Pompey" Bradley, Keith. Slavery and Rebellion in the Roman World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989
One day in in 1946 a group of WWII Veterans grabbed their weapons and went to war against police brutality and electoral fraud. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.americanheritage.com/battle-athens https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/battle-athens-group.html http://csws.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2000-White-Bill-Transcript.pdf
Joe and Nick talk about all the times the militaries of the world attempted to weaponize the powers of woo woo bullshit. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.history.com/news/cia-esp-espionage-soviet-union-cold-war https://taskandpurpose.com/history/5-true-stories-militarys-paranormal-activity-research https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/soldiers-vampires-ghosts Blum, William. Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII https://science.howstuffworks.com/ghost-tape-no-10-haunted-mixtape-the-vietnam-war.htm
Folks, it's bad. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/dirty-painful-death-president-james-garfield https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/09/19/garfield-assassination-white-house-doctors-lied/ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/health/25garf.html https://medium.com/@simoncarryer/damn-near-killed-him-30042c796e29 https://nypost.com/2016/09/22/the-inept-doctor-who-killed-president-garfield/
During the Battle of Kunduz, the US bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, one of the worst war crimes of the Afghan War. Nobody has ever been punished for it. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Check out our store: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Sources: https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/afghanistan-marking-six-years-us-attack-msf-hospital-kunduz https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pentagon-punish-16-afghan-hospital-airstrike-n564826 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/kunduz-hospital-attack-even-in-20-years-we-wont-get-such-a-hospital-again https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/03/afghanistan-us-airstrike-hits-kunduz-hospital
Life aboard a U-boat during WWII was horrible but thankfully short from all the dying. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Correction: During the show Joe says he couldn't find reports of U-Boat crews killing themselves. Someone pointed out it happened at least once in this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zschech Sources: Iron Coffins by Herbert Warner https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/horrors-of-serving-a-u-boat.html https://warisboring.com/the-high-tech-toilet-that-destroyed-a-submarine/
Tom Cruise is the worst pirate ever. Support the show to get more bonus episodes like this: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Follow our Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/lionsledbydonkeyspod
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