BONUS: The 761st Black Panthers
Added 2023-12-18 12:41:27 +0000 UTCAn all black tank battalion fought racist assholes for years just to get the right to become one of the best American tank units in all of WWII.
sources:
https://www.history.com/news/761st-tank-battalion-black-panthers-liberators-battle-of-the-bulge
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/pattons-panthers-the-story-of-the-761st-tank-battalion/
https://www.businessinsider.com/story-black-wwii-tank-unit-that-crushed-nazi-forces-2017-4?r=US&IR=T
Trezzvant Anderson. Come out Fighting: The 761st Tank Battalion
Comments
The 761st Black Panthers were mentioned in an episode of "Archer," during one of the "coma seasons" that took place in the late 40s.
Major Dork Thorklestein, HonFRS
2024-01-18 17:15:26 +0000 UTCStill upset that the crowning achievement isn’t the formation of the JDSU.
Wyatt Nilsson
2023-12-27 01:24:46 +0000 UTCTook me a bit to catch up on this episode, but it got me thinking if doing a future episode on the desegregation of the US military might be a good idea. There's some pretty interesting early champions of desegregation (though mostly just guys who wanted America's imperialism in the early 20th century to work a lot smoother), such as James Kelly Parsons who went from the grand kid of a Confederate States governor to drafting some of the first proposals for a desegregated army. He was motivated by the fact he had served alongside black soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and later Filipinos and native Hawaiians in the counterinsurgency in the philippines, which convinced him that non-white soldiers could serve as combatants alongside whites. As I said, driven pretty much by wanting the US army to do US army stuff better, not by genuine anti-racism, similar to Leslie McNair mentioned in this episode. As a bonus, Parsons was also a very early, very weird theoretician of tank warfare, which might intrigue Joe. Either way, great episode, have a merry christmas and keep up the good work lads!
Hazel Rafter
2023-12-26 18:14:36 +0000 UTCI must have gotten it from something else because i legit dont ever remember watching Waynes World.
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
2023-12-22 13:29:42 +0000 UTCI remember playing as the Black Panthers capturing Tillet in Call of Duty: Finest Hour on the Gamecube
Alex Varrus
2023-12-21 19:03:08 +0000 UTCThe pralines and dick reference you're thinking of comes from Wayne's World
Grumpy Bowlart
2023-12-20 04:24:36 +0000 UTC
