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By the time Lyudmila Pavlichenko joined the rest of her peers at the International Student Assembly at American University in Washington, DC, much of the country knew her name. As well as the Nazis who despised her for the deadly aim she took with her rifle.
Music in this episode was brought to you by: Blue Dot Sessions (Paper Feather, Hickory Shed, Hickory Interlude), Kai Engel (Visum, December), Chris Zabriskie – The Sun Is Scheduled to Come Out Tomorrow
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After hearing the news about the discovery of the Indianapolis wreck, we thought we should unlock this Patreon episode that we recorded over the course of the summer. Make sure you sign up if you’d like more of them hitting your download queue in the future!
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In the first of our interseason episodes, Adin tells the story of the encrypted messages received by the United States on the 13th and 14th of April 1943 and arguably the most important decapitation mission of history that followed.
Music in this episode was brought to you by Chris Zabriskie
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Nazi Germany fielded a military with many components designed to amaze as much as to destroy. While this philosophy meant that some designs never left the drawing board, one that did was the Tiger Tank—a relatively beastly model whose gun could rip through nearly every form of enemy armor before the ill-fated tank even had a chance to strike. The units comprised of these Tigers, heavy panzer battalions, saw some of their fiercest combat on the most treacherous of battlefields—the Eastern Front.
Music in this episode was brought to you by (full track listing): The Southernaires of Black, Blue Dot Sessions, Sergey Cheremisinov, Jon Luc Hefferman, Peter Rudenko, Anamorphic Orchestra, Kai Engel, and Podington Bear
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The 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, the first of its kind, was stood up in 1941. The theory governing their use had yet to be tested on the field of battle. In November of the following year, Lieutenant Colonel Hershel Baker and the men of the 601st found themselves on the Queen Mary departing for that ultimate of testing grounds. Only a few months later, they found themselves along Gabès Road in Tunisia with the 10th Panzer Division bearing down upon them.
