‘We're the Battling B*stards of Bataan, No Mama, No Papa, No Uncle Sam, No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces, No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces, And nobody gives a damn!’

In 1945, the US came back to Manila Bay, to retake the city and their concrete battleship in an act of brutal revenge.

It's time for a history lesson.

www.carouselsnipervictim.com

Listen to "The Breakdown" here

www.patreon.com/carouselsnipervictim

The Balvano train disaster, also known as The Black Market Express, was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever.

www.carouselsnipervictim.com

Listen to "The Breakdown" here
www.patreon.com/carouselsnipervictim

Debbie Scaling was desperately looking for help. She had been hired to deliver a luxury yacht, Trashman, to its new owner in Fort Lauderdale. The owner of this sleek 58-foot Alden luxury sailing yacht with a pine-green hull and elegant teak trim, had made his millions in the garbage business, hence naming his new yacht- Trashman. The crew delivering his new toy though? Not so well assembled.

www.carouselsnipervictim.com

Listen to "The Breakdown" here
www.patreon.com/carouselsnipervictim

The Double Sunrise service was formed in 1943 to re-establish the Australia–England air link that had been cut due to the fall of Singapore in 1942. The service initially operated from its base in Nedlands, Western Australia near Perth, to the Royal Air Force base at Lake Koggala near Galle in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

It was later extended to Karachi in India (now part of Pakistan), which was the terminus for the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) service from England. The name of the service was derived from the crew and passengers observing two sunrises on each flight.

www.carouselsnipervictim.com

Listen to "The Breakdown" here

www.patreon.com/carouselsnipervictim

Time for a nice sit down chat with one of our fine women in blue.

Constable B is a member of the Western Australian Police and an avid fan of history and an all-round awesome chick!

I hope you enjoy our chats as much as we did.

www.carouselsnipervictim.com

Listen to "The Breakdown" here

www.patreon.com/carouselsnipervictim

The blast blew out windows and sent metal fragments flying, ripping through walls and wooden beams inside the Prince Edward Island courthouse, shattering the stillness of a fall Monday morning.

It was Oct. 10, 1988, just after 6 a.m. The homemade pipe bomb had been hidden in a flower bed at the rear of the building. The force was so powerful it drove some pieces of metal into the judges’ chambers on the second floor.

In such a comfortably rural society, where crime is largely an abstraction and the people are suspicious of mainland influences, something like Loki 7 was a homegrown horror.

www.carouselsnipervictim.com

Listen to "The Breakdown" here

www.patreon.com/carouselsnipervictim

On 17 December 1967, Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in the sea near Portsea, Victoria.

An enormous search operation was mounted in and around Cheviot Beach, but his body was never recovered. Holt was presumed to have died, and his memorial service five days later was attended by many world leaders.

It is generally agreed that his disappearance was a simple case of an accidental drowning, but a number of conspiracy theories surfaced, most famously the suggestion that he had been collected by a Chinese submarine.

www.carouselsnipervictim.com

Listen to "The Breakdown" here

www.patreon.com/carouselsnipervictim

Now, just because Australia was never successfully invaded during WWII, does not mean the plans were not thrown around in a few different war rooms.

In early 1942 elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy proposed an invasion of Australia.

In the end, the Japanese military adopted a strategy of isolating Australia from the United States by advancing through the South Pacific.

This offensive was interrupted and eventually abandoned following the Battle of the Coral Sea and Battle of Midway in May and June 1942, and all subsequent Japanese operations in the vicinity of Australia were undertaken to slow the advance of Allied forces.

In Australia however, the government, the military and the people were deeply alarmed after the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942, now, the biggest wartime port in the region- was Sydney.

It is hard to imagine an enemy so audacious that it would simply sail into Sydney Harbour and attack, what was at the time the largest metropolis in Australia.

But Sydney Harbour is peppered with the remains of nineteenth-century fortifications built to defend the city against seaborne attacks by Spain, France and Russia.

www.carouselsnipervictim.com

Listen to "The Breakdown" here

www.patreon.com/carouselsnipervictim