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During the closing of the Hundred Years' War the English decide to launch a cavalry charge against in an entrenched French army, directly into the barrels of hundreds of cannons. It does not end well.

SOURCES:

Welsh, William. Castilion: The Last Battle of the Hundred Years' War. Military Heritage. April 2008. Vol. 9, No. 5.

Curry, Anne. (1993). The Hundred Years War. New York. St. Martin's Press.

Grummitt, David (2010). "Castillon, Siege and Battle of". In Rogers, Clifford J. (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press.

Nolan, Cathal J., ed. (2006). "Castillon, Battle of (July 17, 1453)". The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000–1650: An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization. Vol. 1. Greenwood Press.

https://web.archive.org/web/20051028021944/http://www.xenophongroup.com/montjoie/castilon.htm

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Joe and Tom are once again joined by Gregk Foley of Blood Work to talk about the US Army's Operation Aphrodite during WWII. When a bunch of engineers attempted to create the world's first suicide attack drone. It resulted in a series of dead pilots, nearly blowing up several British villages, and one dead Kennedy.

SOURCES:

Freeman, Roger. The Mighty Eighth.

Spark, Nick. Television Goes to War. https://web.archive.org/web/20080417214556/http://www.mugualumni.org/secretarsenal/page9.html

Gary, Edwin. Operation Aphrodite's B-17 "Smart Bomb."

Olsen, Jack. Aphrodite: Desperate Mission. https://archive.org/details/aphroditedespera00olse

Webb, Mason. Operation Aphrodite. WWII Quarterly. Fall 2014. Vol. 6 No. 1

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During WWII the US Army developed a top secret program to create racist attack dogs on a swamp island off of the coast of Mississippi. This is the story about how Japanese-American soldiers were forced to act as bait for packs of untrained, starving, and abused dogs all because a Swiss psycho, who had no experience training dogs, convinced the US Army that each race smelled differently.

SOURCES:

https://www.npca.org/articles/3798-the-dog-trainers-of-cat-island

https://historynet.com/dog-training-pacific-war/

https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article277536763.html

https://www.uswardogs.org/WWII

https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/dogs-defense-how-skip-spot-and-rover-went-fight-world-war-ii

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/national-dog-day

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/uncle-sam-needs-to-borrow-your-dog.htm

Joe, Tom, and Nate take to the stage at the Rich Mix in London to talk about the time the Republic of Texas attempted to invade Santa Fe, New Mexico without food, water, or even knowing where Santa Fe was on a map.

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CONTENT WARNING

French and English colonies in North America go to war as a part of the larger War of Spanish Succession. Soon an allied force of French soldiers, militia, and Native Warriors are snowshoeing their way from New France to Massachusetts in order to destroy the town of Deerfield.

SOURCES:

Calloway, Colin Gordon. After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England

P.G. Smith. "This Force of French and Allied Warriors Snowshoed 300 Miles to Terrorize a Small Town in Massachusetts." P.G. Smith https://historynet.com/deerfield-raid-massachusetts/

https://www.americanheritage.com/deerfield-massacre

https://www.nepm.org/regional-news/2024-02-28/320-years-ago-the-raid-in-deerfield-was-at-the-center-of-the-fight-for-control-of-north-america

https://historyofmassachusetts.org/raid-on-deerfield/

https://deerfieldraid1704.org/