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The emu is an amazingly hard bird to kill outright, many carry mortal wounds up to a distance of half a mile. I have to admit it thats some real australian behaviour going on up there. Pdf military failures such as the infamous great emu war of 1932 western. The great emu war is a faction that will make you laugh and cry and cry. Man of war was visited by the god of war, mars, and gave him his special abilities. But word of the war on emu s had spread and conservationists were not happy. As a side note i would like to say that this was probably one of the funnest things that i have ever written. Theres only one way to kill an emu, one veteran of the. The great emu war was an effort to cull scores of emus that were destroying australian farmlands.
This famous war broke out in 1932 where the australian army went to war against. Dedicated to history, comic books, and paleontology. When i was in the army, kangaroos would regularly hop across the range as we were firing heavy machine guns. Emu attrition and the depression caused campion to became a ghost town. There was a second attempt to rid the area of emu s which was more successful. There were claims that 986 birds were killed and a further 2500 that died from their injuries. It was an attempt to curb the number of emus that were running amok and damaging crops in the campion district of western australia. If we had a military division with the bulletcarrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world. See more ideas about war comics, comics and comic books. The emu war, also known as the great emu war, was a nuisance wildlife management military operation undertaken in australia over the latter part of 1932 to address public concern over the number of emus said to be running amok in the campion district of western australia. Vica nazi propaganda comics 4 about the digital collection the nazicontrolled government in germanoccupied france produced the vica comic during world war. But 2500 dutch guilders was at least fifteen times more than a skilled craftsman could make in a year. Free file downloads, online comic viewer, plus a helpful, knowledgeable community.
The war would be far more difficult than anyone anticipated. Or how australia lost a war against birds pop history book 1. The great emu war of 1932 is an event one does not expect to hear about. And then, in 1637, i guess they were finally too expensive, because all of a sudden people stopped buying them and the prices collapsed. Eisner, who served in the army during world war ii, edited a magazine on vehicle maintenance until 1971. The emu war, also referred to as the great emu war, was fought between humans and emus in australia in 1932. In 1932, australia declared war on its emu populationfor real. The best site for downloading free public domain golden age comic books. Today the emu war is a distant but bitter memory of the australian military with only people making jokes about it on the internet directly affecting them. The unsuccessful attempts to curb the population of emus. The emus proved too elusive and hard to kill, so the operation. What todays kangaroo fighters can learn from the great.
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