Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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During the US Civil War, a group of men with some of the strangest names we've ever heard on the show accidentally fight a battle over a stagnant pond while their commanders were somewhere else.

SOURCES:

Breiner, Thomas L. "The Battle of Perryville: Bragg's Kentucky Invasion"

Eicher, David J. The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War

Hafendorfer, Kenneth A. Perryville: Battle for Kentucky.

Harrison, Lowell Hayes. The Civil War in Kentucky.

Sanders, Stuart W. "Carnage in Kentucky's Hills"

Shepherd, Joshua. "The Battle of Perryville: Death on a Dry River."

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A decades-long saga involving a failed military weapons project, carnies, stuntmen, methheads, a possible international drug smuggler, a murder, and, of course, a jet pack.

SOURCES:

Brown, Paul (2009). The Rocketbelt Caper: A True Tale of Invention, Obsession and Murder

Mullins, Justin (October 2005) "The Ups and Downs of Jet Packs. New Scientist. No. 2519

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-rocketbelt-caper-56202480/

https://rocketbelts.americanrocketman.com/history.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-26-me-23415-story.html

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/03/where-eagles-dare-the-jetpack-mystery.html

https://www.deseret.com/1999/7/28/19457763/rocket-belt-still-missing-but-feud-lives-on/

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We did in fact go to Ireland and we used this special moment to talk about a guy who got so into posting on Discord that he got charged under the Espionage Act. Thank you so much to our wonderful audience! This was an absolute blast.

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Joe and Nate discuss the 1944 airborne insertion in Normandy, the absolute chaos on the ground, and a very strangely cobbled-together American unit that somehow wound up holding off a German division in a small town called Graignes.

SOURCES REFERENCED:

Morgan, Martin K.A. Down to Earth: The 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment in Normandy,
Ibid. Battle of Graignes: An HQ Company Heroic Last Stand in Normandy. WWII Quarterly. Vol 5, no 3

O'Leary, Margaret R.; O'Leary, Dennis S. (24 February 2011). Tragedy at Graignes: The Bud Sophian Story

Rabe SG. The Longest Day in Graignes. In: The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/battle-of-graignes.html
https://www.normandyamericanheroes.com/blog/graignes-bloody-sunday