Episode 418 - Operation Aphrodite

SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON. USE CODE DONK50 TO GET 50% OFF YOUR FIRST MONTH patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys

LISTEN TO BLOOD WORK:

https://open.spotify.com/show/5jt9RZSCVMJ1KS84QHB9jJ

BUY JOE'S BOOK 'THE HIGHLANDS BURN'

https://www.amazon.com/Highlands-Burn-Foundling-Brigade-Saga-ebook/dp/B0GSG5CNXX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AVUPB28MBUYO&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.NNgKYnCYiqAJJS_eOQD2UYzjUqrfsCV8e6mhEpEOu8dyC1MKfbuv5t1cX6Cv-Kw5Hm3lFM_2vWG3Dc3EnyW4xSOR0eGi5GLaqW0TcrcO5Vf6VMd4F2keDTuQ1DlRS-GBNr24jKul0TozZWTct2sAiq3zX-82f5yk8oWl8KkPE2vH_sELnUhQbW_R3A330VM65hxbAUa56Ppyxfo9tMa38b_Qv1L4w4yYCj7rktOrxlw.KjrRckJzI25gb9P-yCrRS0hCQGw1qvYFlzBrcOT0wIs&dib_tag=se&keywords=THE+HIGHLANDS+BURN&qid=1780860988&sprefix=the+highlands+burn%2Caps%2C307&sr=8-1

Don't want to use Amazon? Buy it the ebook from our store:

https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-epub

Get the audiobook:

https://www.llbdpodcast.com/products/the-highlands-burn-audiobook

Joe and Tom are once again joined by Gregk Foley of Blood Work to talk about the US Army's Operation Aphrodite during WWII. When a bunch of engineers attempted to create the world's first suicide attack drone. It resulted in a series of dead pilots, nearly blowing up several British villages, and one dead Kennedy.

SOURCES:

Freeman, Roger. The Mighty Eighth.

Spark, Nick. Television Goes to War. https://web.archive.org/web/20080417214556/http://www.mugualumni.org/secretarsenal/page9.html

Gary, Edwin. Operation Aphrodite's B-17 "Smart Bomb."

Olsen, Jack. Aphrodite: Desperate Mission. https://archive.org/details/aphroditedespera00olse

Webb, Mason. Operation Aphrodite. WWII Quarterly. Fall 2014. Vol. 6 No. 1