EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of Cape Gloucester
Added 2025-01-26 09:46:33 +0000 UTCMarines storm ashore a rainforest-bound, diseased-filled, swampy death trap of an island to take an airfield with no strategic value.
Sources:
Bernard Nalty. The Green Inferno.
Frank Hough. The Campaign on New Britain
John Miller. History of U.S. Marine Corps Operations in World War II. Volume II: Isolation of Rabaul
Al Hemingway. The Incessant Rains of the Green Inferno. WWII History Volume 9, No. 7
Sidney Phillips. The Fighting Conditions on Cape Gloucester. (video interview) https://marinesidphillips.com/sid-phillips-on-capegloucester.htm
Comments
Hate to admit but I was in that frat for a hot minute as a young (dumb…drunk) man at the university of Arizona (go wildcats) and they are way worse. An episode of criminal touches on it. J Edgar Hoover was a member (and apparently kept stuff out of the library of congress allegedly). I can teach you the secret handshake
Kevin Wren
2025-04-09 16:22:12 +0000 UTCThe second you mentioned the New Guinea Campaign, my heart sank. Growing up in Australia, hearing sooo much about Kokoda, that entire campaign, and how heinous the conditions are there...I knew I was in for a ride. Also, if you go there today you can still see old warplanes and airfields reclaimed by dense jungle and wreckages of Japanese mini-subs in the rivers.
Alex
2025-02-02 12:01:09 +0000 UTCYeah, between the salties, snakes, cassowaries, bullsharks and stonefish...the Japanese would have been utterly fucked. PNG just sounds like Tully but an entire country.
Alex
2025-02-02 11:52:42 +0000 UTCOnce i was at a Belushi Speedball show, and very much not in the pit, and someone in the pit bolted across the room and knocked me the fuck out. Great show tho.
Stupid Weasels
2025-02-01 20:32:23 +0000 UTCYou say Italian Adeptus Mechanicus. I thought Italian Barret
NickL87
2025-01-31 21:26:36 +0000 UTCXbox’s
Michael
2025-01-31 07:29:45 +0000 UTCNot yet
Michael Davies
2025-01-30 09:07:39 +0000 UTCIdk I've been in their snack aisles and only one of them will have a mascot trying to sell me on ranch flavored yogurt flavored Pringles
Jan
2025-01-29 16:54:32 +0000 UTCThe white monster psyop worked, because of y’all it tried one for the first time, and ngl it’s pretty good
Cratermaker27
2025-01-29 01:00:27 +0000 UTCI used to be so scared walking anywhere, they were in the ponds at fucking golf courses. I remember sitting up the hill from the river near Wujal Wujal and spotting 5 monsters in about 4 minutes. Nightmare material.
mumbles march
2025-01-28 23:38:33 +0000 UTCI should add that while everyone starts off the same, driving a car invariably turns people into psychopaths.
Elsie Hupp
2025-01-28 18:31:19 +0000 UTCCyclists behave badly mainly towards pedestrians: Don’t ride your bike on the sidewalk unless you’re a child! Yield to me when I’m walking in the crosswalk! On the other hand: All power to you if you act this aggressively towards car drivers instead! (But yeah the type of guy who is defensive about cyclist discourse does tend to be the type of guy who will nearly bowl you over in a crosswalk. You should be busy keying a Mercedes instead of nearly killing me!)
Elsie Hupp
2025-01-28 18:29:09 +0000 UTCI’m not presently a cyclist, but I’m also not presently a car driver, and as a pedestrian I do sometimes wish I had a golf club to fend off aggressive drivers. (Absent the golf club, I try to pound the hood of the car if someone nearly runs into me.)
Elsie Hupp
2025-01-28 18:23:00 +0000 UTCOn the other hand, people who drive expensive cars have more expensive body-work repair bills… (Carry a golf club while cycling to defend yourself from the bodywork of expensive cars.)
Elsie Hupp
2025-01-28 18:18:05 +0000 UTCThe confederate hole is a bit like Patton's side piece. All in the family.
Nadie Southpaw
2025-01-28 17:31:39 +0000 UTCIirc, my grandfather was there. He was an artillery officer
Jamie Knocke
2025-01-28 14:57:22 +0000 UTCHey, when the opportunity presents itself, might as well take it! /s But I was just talking about the general stereotype that I figured they were calling back to.
Markus D
2025-01-28 14:57:01 +0000 UTCHowever, when the war in the pacific started to really turn against them, the Imperial Japanese Army sure ate people!
Paloma Alcala
2025-01-28 14:54:48 +0000 UTCYeah those salties are no fucking joke, they don't just take kids.
NarrowEbb
2025-01-28 10:45:33 +0000 UTCWhy, do you know of one? ...y'know, just out of curiosity.
The Narrator
2025-01-28 04:41:59 +0000 UTCSyria and lebanon campaign too
Steve Xin
2025-01-28 00:10:54 +0000 UTCThe Austrailian plan was to have the Japanese fight the emus.
Matthew Mayton
2025-01-27 19:24:41 +0000 UTCIf you look at the Wikipedia article for New Britain there's a picture of members of the 1st Marine Division holding captured flags and they look miserable. They also look like they want to kill the photographer, but that could just be the various diseases that they're suffering from.
Elder Dog
2025-01-27 18:16:21 +0000 UTCThe eternal crowd killing discourse
Taco
2025-01-27 16:26:20 +0000 UTCI'll have you know that it's the Chinese who will eat anything, not the Japanese.
Markus D
2025-01-27 15:14:23 +0000 UTCI always do an epic eye roll when the “everything in Australia wants to kill you” line gets rolled out but oh boy that does not apply to the Far North…..There is a literal bird that shrieks at night like a woman screaming. I remember an old woman and a little kid separately getting taken by a croc when I lived in FNQ. The rainforest is so dense there are parts where no light penetrates. I don’t think the Japanese would have gotten past Cooktown.
mumbles march
2025-01-27 09:21:05 +0000 UTCYou know, you got a point.
I_like_planes_and_cities
2025-01-27 03:34:09 +0000 UTCAnd small animals
Jason Machacek
2025-01-27 02:51:32 +0000 UTCat Alabama, the cannon in the front yard of the KA house points north
Syd
2025-01-27 02:32:30 +0000 UTCSince you said that so many great books are overlooked because of their genre, if you found another dinosaur erotica that was good, you’d recommend it?
Michael Davies
2025-01-27 02:11:50 +0000 UTCHey Joe, you say Audi weird. We all do.
Hammerthrust Von Sexron
2025-01-27 01:42:41 +0000 UTC@7:20 *crocodile voice* guerilla warfare!
Syd
2025-01-27 01:36:13 +0000 UTCThe Chia PTSD pet is just Elmo with a thousand yard stare and Fortunate Sun playing in the background
Michael Davies
2025-01-27 01:12:31 +0000 UTCAustralia - notably not present at Dunkirk in any meaningful way. I suspect you meant the Fall of Singapore, North Africa, Greece or Crete
Niall Holden
2025-01-26 22:00:39 +0000 UTCMishima born too early and too fancy for hos calling: the village people
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-01-26 21:04:37 +0000 UTCYou know those guys that say they'd have joined the army but their eyes were too bad? Mishima would have joined the army but his dick was too hard
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-01-26 20:48:07 +0000 UTCOh gods! Nate bringimg audiophiles and vinyl. I'm old enough to have been around for the first go round. He is so on point on their behavior. They don't listen to music to enjoy it, they listen to music to enjoy how Aja sounds on their 20 grand rig.
Doug King
2025-01-26 20:32:34 +0000 UTCHence him needing like a massive bro to gently bully him for being ... oh. Mish was a weeaboo also japanese fortress in a swamp... this sounded familiar
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-01-26 20:23:56 +0000 UTCYeah we know. Most of his first book is him complaining about how he never got a chance to go die in war because he was considered too sickly (one of the reasons he eventually became obsessed with fitness and diet)
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
2025-01-26 18:51:18 +0000 UTCMy favorite book by him is still Guns of the Dawn
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
2025-01-26 18:50:07 +0000 UTCHe is very good.
Salman Khatri
2025-01-26 18:32:53 +0000 UTCHey! I was in Kappa Alpha Order, and it’s worse than you think! The “secret” ritual is nearly entirely lifted from the masons, and it’s entirely themed around the templars going on crusades against saracens. It’s very fucked, and I met only terrible people the entire time I was in it.
Jay Ghoul
2025-01-26 16:57:54 +0000 UTCYou are not imagining it, there's been research that people who drive more expensive cars, drive more dangerously, especially towards pedestrians and cyclists.
ruin
2025-01-26 16:53:35 +0000 UTCDon't you love when an entomologist fucking hates wasps. And accidentally introduces the concept of bug miscegenation
Inconspicuous old man and mime
2025-01-26 16:49:50 +0000 UTCAdrian Tchaichovsky mentioned! The "Children of..." books are so good! And the "Shadows of the Apt" series was a much more pulpy but also really good series.
Ben Schwabe
2025-01-26 16:31:15 +0000 UTCI know I'm gonna love this episode. I just started listening to it. This has to be the best opening ever empty white monster cans, and empty vapes. It's so awesome but seriously though I know it's gonna be a great story to tell. Thanks guys.
iDoTechOK
2025-01-26 16:30:30 +0000 UTCthis is like if heironomous bosch planned a military operation
Lain of the Wired
2025-01-26 15:18:03 +0000 UTCIt may be quite awkward but as a gay man who felt HIDEOUSLY naked by mishima's pen, & who has a fascination with historical gays... Well it is worth remembering that Mishima did not see combat; & his oath is one which... a lot of gays radicalize themselves into that bullshit. But had Yukio run into a buncha kitted out giant bros... he would have renounced fascism, he would have written no novels, just extremely EXTREMELY horny odes to White Monster, shoulder hair, & that inedible chocolate bar.
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-01-26 15:12:34 +0000 UTCIf you want a decent book about not just tanking in the Pacific theatre, but military life in general. Cutthroats: Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific is a good one. You can tell it's authentic because the author talks about things like dodging duty, running from the MP s, stealing rations, and blowing up the transmission in a tank
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-01-26 14:15:00 +0000 UTCWhat if The Deserter from Disco Elysium was also the shark from Jaws
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-01-26 13:46:55 +0000 UTCAs someone who cooks a lot, and is a food historian, a lot of people get kitchen appliances and fancy ingredients and never use them. They have these huge kitchens with a full set of magnificent pans, either a KitchenAid or Kenwood with all the accessories, a massive spice collection, heaps of different oils and vinegars - and none of it is ever used.
LeobaL
2025-01-26 13:34:54 +0000 UTCThey did a manga about a berserk masturbator named Nuts.
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-01-26 13:21:48 +0000 UTCLook at Joe finally pronouncing Gloucester right. We’re all so proud of how far you’ve come.
Zach
2025-01-26 10:53:53 +0000 UTCI love having a fucked up sleeping schedule and randomly refreshing my feed for a new episode to drop. Looking forward to listening to this 🔥
HozanBrozan
2025-01-26 10:00:47 +0000 UTConce you've listened one LLBD episode about marines fucking up you've listened to them all
kliachichka
2025-01-26 09:52:02 +0000 UTC
