War elephants, anti tank dogs, moose cavalry, carrier pigeons, donkey bombs, rocket cats, bear moats, bee hive missiles, explosive rats, the PDSA Dickin Medal and the dolphin arms race. Plus pop culture.
Music:Â “Pigeon Walk” by Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra (1937)
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Going to listen to this on my way to work, but I sure hope y’all mention We3.
Nice one.
RadioLab had a really quite moving piece on the yellow rain/bee wee you mentioned, including an interview with one of the guys who’d lived in the forests of Vietnam (or Cambodia, I think, somewhere down that way) who believed his village had been affected by chemical warfare as a result of this yellow rain. Despite all the testing that had been done, which all pointed to it being something like pollen, he was absolutely convinced that it had been some form of chemical weapon. Worth a listen: http://www.radiolab.org/story/239549-yellow-rain/.
And if you’d been there, close up to the bees, this is what it might look like: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/amateur-captures-bee-peeing-mid-flight
I wonder if you could train them. Bees are trainable, you know.
Joe especially might appreciate the story of Stubby! Stubby was a Boston terrier mix that fought for the US in WWI. He is stuffed and displayed, medals and all, at the Smithsonian.
http://www.annbausum.com/stubby-sgt.html
In pop culture:That fine mid-70’s live action kid’s show “Run, Joe, Run”, about a falsely-accused Army dog’s life on the lam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run,_Joe,_Run
IMO, “Korg: 70,000 B.C.” was much better . . .
Awesome podcast as usual, keep up the good work! With regards to the sabotaged exploding coal, this idea was actually used by the Confederates during the American Civil War. Article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_torpedo