Joe is joined by Jordan Holmes of the Knowledge Fight Podcast to talk about one of the coolest soldiers to ever serve in the US Army. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Koerner, Brendan. 'Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/african-americans-world-war-ii https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-was-black-americas-double-war/
Apr 04, 2022•1 hr 5 min
The conclusion to the story of the polar bear expedition support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Part 3/4 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Part 2/4 The Detroit's own finally make it to Russia, which has been transformed into the disease realm by the Spanish Flu Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Part 1/4 Joe is joined by Francis Horton, co-host of HOAWTD, to talk about a forgotten chapter of American history. The time the US invaded Russia in the middle of WWI and during the Russian Revolution. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for all related episodes: James Carl Nelson. The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919 EM Holiday. When Hell Froze Over https://books.google.com/books?id=UZPhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=...
Mar 07, 2022•1 hr 4 min
The soviets launch their killing blow against the nazi army, ending the Battle of Kursk Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 13 min
SS units arrive at the battle of Kursk cheering "Lunch in Kursk!" They would not, in fact, have lunch in Kursk. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Hitler edges the idea of starting one of the most disastrous battles of all time while the Soviets build Fortress Kursk. Correction: Panzer V - Panther Panzer VI - Tiger Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Feb 14, 2022•51 min
The USSR baits Nazis Germany into bleeding their army to death on 200 miles of death traps. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources for all related episodes: Showalter, Dennis. (2013) Armor and Blood: The Battle of Kursk: The Turning Point of World War II. Guderian, Heinz (1937). Achtung – Panzer! Nipe, George (2011). Blood, Steel, and Myth: The II. SS-Panzer-Korps and the Road to Prochorowka, July 1943. https://web.archive.org/web/20140912164146/http://www.uni.edu/~l...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Joe is joined by Alice Caldwell-Kelly to discuss the time the US Navy murdered 47 of its sailors via incompetence and then decided to try to pin the blame on gay people. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/04/19/uss-iowa-first-came-explosion-then-cover.html https://taskandpurpose.com/news/iowa-explosion/ A Glimpse of Hell: The Explosion on the USS Iowa and Its Cover-Up
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 25 min
Once upon a time a Royal Navy mutiny created an island of sex crimes and incest. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-real-story-behind-infamous-mutiny-hms-bounty LOST PARADISE: FROM MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY TO A MODERN-DAY LEGACY OF SEXUAL MAYHEM, THE DARK SECRETS OF PITCAIRN ISLAND REVEALED
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 19 min
The war begins and ends. Russia steals an entire navy. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 17 min
It turns out a 2 week long war has 100 years of history Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia
Jan 10, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Fun times with the USMC on the beach! * *your experience may vary Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: With the Marines At Tarawa One Square Mile of Hell https://www.historynet.com/remembering-bloody-bloody-tarawa/
Jan 03, 2022•1 hr 8 min
What happens when white nationalists, neo nazis, and Black despots team up to try to prolong apartheid in South Africa? One of the dumbest coup attempts of all time. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: The Death of Apartheid: The Whites Last Stand https://web.archive.org/web/20150924104002/http://www.southafrica.info/10years/tenyearsago2.htm http://www.law.buffalo.edu/content/dam/law/restricted-assets/pdf/faculty/mutuaM/magazines/arJulyAug94.pdf Allister Sparks. ...
Dec 27, 2021•1 hr 12 min
The American Revolution left a lot of people behind. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: Egerton, Douglas R., Death of Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America Lanning, Michael Lee. African Americans in the Revolutionary War.
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Germany gets involved and throws its entire airborne corps into a woodchipper. *correction, England has won a World Cup. In 1966. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Mussolini attempts to recreate the Roman Empire, killing thousands of his own soldiers in the mountains. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2017/07/20/the-greco-italian-war-one-of-benito-mussolinis-biggest-failures/ https://www.historynet.com/greek-tragedy-invading-greece-wwii.htm Cervi, Mario (1971). The Hollow Legions. Mussolini's Blunder in Greece, 1940–1941
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 8 min
The story of the deadliest woman in military history Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: Lady Death: The Memoir of Stalin's Sniper - Lyudmila Pavlichenko https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lady-death-red-army-lyudmila-pavlichenko https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-soviet-sniper-23585278/
Nov 29, 2021•56 min
The most British man ever went into battle against tanks armed with an umbrella and wearing a bowler hat. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.history.co.uk/article/ww2-heroes-the-story-of-major-digby-tatham-warter https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/digby-tatham-warter-disabled-a-german-tank-with-an-umbrella.html https://www.saxonlodge.net/getperson.php?personID=I0973&tree=Tatham#cite1
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Bulgaria (possibly) starts a war with Greece over a dog that strays over the border (maybe) and a bad dictator seizes on it as an opportunity to shore up a crumbling government. support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/wars-fought-stupid-reasons-stray-dog-caused-war-greece-bulgaria-1925.html https://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/09/07/roll-over-and-play-dead-the-ridiculous-war-of-the-stray-dog/ https://timesofindia.indiatime...
Nov 15, 2021•59 min
2/3rds of the WTYP cast join Joe to talk about the dumbest game of telephone in military history. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys sources: https://www.historynet.com/crimean-war-siege-in-the-caucasus.htm https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade-who-blundered-in-the-valley-of-death/ https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/light-brigade-britains-disaster.html
Nov 08, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Francis Horton, one of the hosts of the What a Hell of a way to die podcasts takes the wheel to tell the story of his home state of Missouri and the weird Jesse James grifting cave. *Corrections* Francis mixed up the Pottawatomie massacre and the Raid on Harper's Ferry. The massacre occured in 1856 and the raid in 1859 which ended in Brown's uprising being put down by famed asshole Robert E Lee and Brown's death. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Nov 01, 2021•1 hr 18 min
WWII officially ended on September 2, 1945. It went on a lot longer for some people. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-japanese-wwii-soldier-who-refused-to-surrender-for-27-years-180979431/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/may/28/secondworldwar.japan https://archive.today/20130717075553/http://newspaperarchive.com/pacific-stars-and-stripes/1949-01-10/page-5?tag=kufuku&rtserp=tags/kufuku%3Fndt=by&py=1949&a...
Oct 31, 2021•55 min
Joe is joined by Robert Evans, the host of Behind the Bastards to talk about that time the US sparked a race war within its own army during WWII. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys Sources: https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/events-global-african-history/the-riot-of-bamber-bridge-1943/ https://www.stripes.com/history/2021-06-24/bamber-bridge-race-riot-blacks-wwii-1792183.html https://theconversation.com/black-troops-were-welcome-in-britain-but-jim-crow-wasn...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Roman invades Mongolia, becomes a legally reincarnated god, murders thousands. Sources: The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Baron Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg is one of the most insane men to ever live. *clarification: Estonians aren't slavic people. However, Russian and Baltic German nobility saw them as slavs due to their peasant status. No, this makes no sense. Sources for all related shows: The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/ungern-sternberg-buddhist-isis/459327/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNUq7IUU300 Willard Sunderland (2014) The Baron’s Cloak, A H...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr 21 min
The famed Rough Riders were a liability Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Typhus! Yellow Fever! Malaria! And more! Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Part 1 of 3 as we explore the birth of American Empire. Sources for all 3 episodes: Empire by Default: The Spanish-American War and the Dawn of the American Century The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/spring/roosevelt-and-medal-of-honor-3.html https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/how-buffalo-soldiers-helped-win-the-spanish-american-warand-saved-teddy-roosevelt-7716090 Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lio...
Sep 20, 2021•1 hr 9 min
