BONUS EPISODE: Operation Ginny
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The Zoo Crew teams up to talk about the time the US planned a commando raid into Italy during WWII. It turned into a point by point checklist on how to murder your own commando team.
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Sources:
Vincent Lupiano. Operation Ginny: The Most Significant Commando Raid of WWII
Don Smart. OSS Operation Ginny
Richard Raiber. Anatomy of Perjury: Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Via Rasella, and the Ginny Mission
The trial of German major war criminals: proceedings of the International military tribunal sitting at Nuremberg, Germany, Volume 4. H.M. Stationery. p. 8.
Patrick Gallo. For Love and Country: The Italian Resistance.
Comments (27)
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lmao at pizza for my family being the soup for my family for 2nd gen antifascists
We can all agree there’s no way the operation was originally named with a soft G right? Like a 1940s operation made up of all Italian Americans? It definitely started as the slur then changed somewhere along the way
william donovan's wife was likw the project Isabela judas goat
Holy fuck a fellow Stegosaur fan
I should add, among the Italian POWs Donovan could've chosen were entire teams of Italian special forces who surrendered in North Africa - Folgore paratroopers, Flottiglia Decima MAS frogmen, and Auto-Sahara scouts (the guys who were fighting the LRDG a lot of the time), and a LOT of these guys would end up fighting the Germans on Italy anyway.
What makes the OSS recruiting effort even dumber is that by the time they're ready to invade the Italian peninsula, they already had over 100,000 Italian POWs, many of whom would've been glad to fight the Germans (and eventually would) as well as a burgeoning homegrown resistance movement from which they could've handpicked operatives. They did not NEED Tony Stagnoli from 92nd street in Ozone Park.
So, Robert Evans and Joe made John McAfee kill himself in a Spanish prison?
That bit made me almost regret deactivating Twitter because I want to go back and read that. Wonder if it's archived anywhere...
“My gelato has a body count”
Victor Bout on Russian TV complaining about how many genders and Dinosaurs America has.
Um actually - the velociraptor dinosaur is actually a Deinonychus, but it’s harder to say. Nerdy. Velociraptors fuck.
“Radios will still sometimes just shit themselves and die” glad the marine corps kept that spirit alive to the present day
Every time you said Commando I just thought of Jack Churchill
The Great Boston Mooninite Panic of 2007 even has its own Wiki page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic
Did I just here MS Teams in the background?
Dethklok call out! “I’m a gear in the wheel of the clock. I fear not my mortality. I’ll serve to the best of my ability.”
2 things - A) thank you for the Long Island and Queens shoutouts. I feel seen. 2) my bjj instructor from years back Babs is in that ungentlemanly warfare ww2 commando movie.
Damn I needed this laugh thanks 🙌💯😂
The Aqua Teen Hunger Force “attack” I remember going hey that’s a moonanite 😂
I really like these raid episodes. There's something about the combination of basic fuckups in the planning stage, occasional moments of utterly pointless valor, and overall strategic irrelevance that just pleases me.
I love how Francis was complaining about the amount of dinosaurs there are now. Just hysterical
Joe, I love your pronunciation. I laughed way too hard this morning at your pronunciation of kurwa 😄
Princip was a serbian nationalist
fun fact part of the the serbian diaspora is learning you literally have like a 1/3 chance of your last name showing up on the charter for the Black Hand and you just gotta deal with that
Was the McAfee stuff on your old personal twitter, Joe?
Zoo Crew babyyyyy 🔥