*BONUS EPISODE* The Raid on IJmuiden

Joe takes a Detroitian Hajj to Switzerland every three months in order to dump the catalytic converter scraps into lake Geneva xd

Me. I’m the one that dips my potato chips in aioli.

I closed my eyes, thought of a bomber, and got a freaking Lancaster. Bro I don't even like Lancasters >.>

Record setting "Not to get off topic" from Nate. Not even 1m.

Thanks for getting the Bulk & Skull theme stuck in my head

My grandfather was in B26s. Great to hear more about how they sucked.

Jin-Roh is amazing

What to do when Zeus steals your twink pilots? You do cavalry. Zeus will steal your fuckable young men & bestows IMMORTAL SUPERNATURALLY FAST HORSES Duh. Adittionally promise Poseidon a bull give him a shitter bull, get an anthropophagous supersoldier

Nate, I flew C-130's we normally do personnel airdrops (static or freefall) at 130 knots. Our stall speeds are much lower... scary lower Very capable aircraft. I am sure you can find the answers on a War Thunder forum... but I still work for the DoD, so I don't want to disappear to a CIA black site. We do everything by "knots" in aviation too. As an AVGeek and military aviator this episode hits so good.

Man Tom Walker is so good, his podcast bigsofttitty.png is also a strong reccomend for anyone who also likes things like Boonta Vista. And 100% on the fast cars having impeccable comedic timing, he'll be in the quietest most random place and suddenly a screaming man in an SUV just precision strikes him in the face

The expanse is so good

Oh man if you like Chavez and haven't heard them I highly, highly recommend Polvo.

The C-5 was designed with airdrop in mind as well, I've flown it as slow as 110 KIAS, so it probably has better stall characteristics than the Widowmaker

Built to Spill slaps!

Wait, the captain had 80% of his face blown off and the copilot didn’t take control? This explains the rehearsal perfectly.

Thank you for the Bulk and Skull reference. Their theme is our generations' Benny Hill.

"It's kind of like airborne insertions... and it's like for a huge numbers of people sure"... VDV! Take off the strip! 200 men on a one-way trip Didn't even do anti-air suppression Who planned this mission? VDV! In afterlife I meet Fallschirmjagers from Crete!

Sometimes you gotta perform a human sacrifice to Huitzilopochtli because you see Zeus take the form of a gaint goose and your engines are down

I have finally watched Star Trek The Next Generation. It's so good and I think we need more optimistic sci fi instead of "cyberpunk dystopia #38483842838".

We're gonna take Hiroshima out tonight Yeah, we'll show them what we're all about We're gonna bomb her from Enola Gay We'll let the good times all roll out And if the bomb ain't good, well, it's just too bad We're gonna war crime, no matter what Because the McArthur don't mind at the SWPA If you kill 'em and he wins the front. Nate did this to my brain.

I feel like not enough people have watched Jin-Roh it's fucking awesome.

Jorts mention! But not that one.

Speaking of gay, the two lead pilots on masters of the air flirt NONSTOP in that fucking show. I thought the pacific was flirty enough but hot damn do they go for it in this new show. Bro grabs other dudes face between his fingers all jokingly and nearly had me fainting. nothing like queer coded war movies 🥵🏳️‍🌈

Also, big ups to the Iraqi insurgents who saw Nate's head sticking up out of an unarmored humvee filled to the brim with officers and said, "Too easy, let them pass."

PATREON WHY WONT YOU LET ME ADD NEW LINES ON MOBILE!? LET ME MAKE PARAGRAPHS PLEASE! <p style="">Just as an aside about airborne insertions - everyone thinks about the big operations, Overlord, Market/Garden, Husky, Avalanche, Crete - but the majority of combat drops during the war were actually small-unit affairs. </p><p style="">In the Pacific, the 11th Airborne was using small recon and liasion planes to drop platoons or at most companies ahead of the main formation to act as an anvil to the main advance's hammer. In one notable instance on Leyte, the 11th's entire parachute artillery complement jumped onto a steep hill deep in Japanese territory because they would have a 360° field of fire and the Japanese wouldn't be able to dislodge them. It worked but they had to leave all of their guns up on that hill (which are probably still up there today) when the main advance got to them, and as a result they had to fight as a regular infantry formation until they left Leyte.</p> To Nate that might sound familiar, because they were literally doing helicopter assault tactics without the helicopters. So once the choppers proliferated, it's no wonder parachute drops became obsolete, because 9/10 times if you were doing a combat drop in WW2, it wasn't in much more than company strength. This wasn't just the US Army in the Pacific, but the Soviets, the Germans, and the Italians (both ours and theirs) were doing these proto-chopper drops all throughout the war.

Have I ever seen the movie Memphis Belle? You mean what is in my brain a vehicle for the world’s hottest redhead Eric Stolz??? Is it wrong, that me a fellow ginge, fully zeroed in on the twink poet?

They trained gunners on the backs of trucks with pintle mounted shotguns that had M2 handles and triggers. They’d drive down the road and shoot clay pigeons flung from the truck.

Regarding music at the end- how the Demo remains your favorite despite later work, that's me with Arcade Fire. Their EP is so good. Funeral is great, Reflektor is great, but their EP is still something I listen to every time I have a long drive.

I've flown in a B-17, B-24, and B-25 (in the US, these tour the country and you can take a 30 minute flight in them). They are all just nothing more than tin cans with wings that somehow stay up in the air. I feel a sneeze can puncture it.

The funny thing about the B26 is, once they trained the crews, modified the airframe, and stopped trying to make it do those missions- it become one of the best medium bombers of the war with one of the highest rates of survival. Teething issues would be a common theme with a number of US aircraft ( especially bombers) during the war.

I’ve seen plenty of nudity at Bains des Pâquis in Geneva, but it’s always an old white person

Though the final version of the Marauder didn't have the Big Nose Gun, there were a lot of WW2 planes that had them. The Soviets built a fighter around a 45mm cannon. The US had a variant of the B25 with a 75mm howitzer. The Italians built a heavy bomber with a 102mm cannon

Gotta love waking up to a new episode on my birthday.

1: The Enola Sotadic Zone 2: The gay bomb is a real thing and definitely not a nuke.

Awww yeah, just wake up and a new Donk episode? Today is gonna be great.

I’m just anticipating how Joe is going to pronounce IJmuiden