Episode 63: Birds of War: The Great Emu Uprising

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In 1932, Australia launched a military campaign against 20,000 emus—and lost. Armed with machine guns and WWI vets, the government faced off against giant birds in one of history’s most ridiculous (and bird-brained) military failures.

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