Episode 340 - The Battle of Fort Driant

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Lions Led By Donkeys

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Support the show on patreon! https://www.patreon.com/c/lionsledbydonkeys Check out the merch store: https://llbdmerch.com/ Patton sends his soldiers into a tunnel meat grinder, suffering his first and only real defeat as a commander during WWII Sources: Anthony Kemp. The Unknown Battle: Metz John Nelson Rickard. Patton at Bay: the Lorraine Campaign, September to December, 1944 Duane E. Shaffer. Patton’s Lost Battle. Warfare History Network Ryan McLachlan. Battle of Fort Driant – World War II’s Strangest Engagement? War History Online

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Our merch store is restocked. So if you missed any of the live show, specific
0:06.2	merch and wherever date that we went to and you couldn't make it to, it's all on our merch store.
0:11.9	LLBDmerch.com. So get your orders in while they last. We only have certain sizes and certain
0:18.7	numbers and whichever one it happens to be.
0:21.3	So if you want something, get your order in.
0:24.0	Once again, that is LLBDmerch.com, and the link will also be in the show notes.
0:29.9	Thank you. Friends, but by God. I'm going to
0:40.3	Behrone Hey everyone and welcome to the Lions of By Donkeys podcast.
1:08.4	I'm Joe and with me is Tom and Nate. We're in the third army of the United States,
1:13.4	circa 1944. George Patton is our commander. All three of us were previously wounded while fighting
1:20.3	in the bocage when we were graced with a hospital visit from Patton himself. While touring the
1:25.9	beds, he walks by Tom and I, and immediately
1:28.0	orders us to be removed to a different wing of the hospital, deciding that we were not, in fact,
1:32.9	white enough. He eyes Nate with suspicion, knowing he hates him for some reason, but can't
1:38.7	quite put his finger on it. After escaping the hospital and running into Bernard Montgomery,
1:43.5	who was asking a soldier
1:45.0	who was walking by if they had a little brother they could become pen pals with, we finally made
1:49.9	it back to our tank. Only to discover we had no fuel due to Eisenhower diverting all of the
1:54.9	supplies to an airborne and ground invasion of the Netherlands, which is surely a flat country
1:59.6	renowned for good weather, so nothing bad could possibly happen.
2:02.8	How are you guys doing?
2:03.7	I'm just imagining Brazilian George Patton.
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