The Great Emu War of 1932

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Emus are native to Australia, and as everyone knows, nearly everything in Australia seems capable of killing you. If the sun doesn’t do it, there are still redback spiders, funnel webs, and Taipans, and others to contend with. It should come as no surprise, then, that the emu—part ostrich, part velociraptor—is also an annoyance bent on making the lives of people living in Australia miserable.

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Now that you know about the Great Emu War of 1932 check out this video and find out about The Amazing Heroism of Ben L. Salomon- the Army Dentist Who Killed 98 Attacking Enemy Soldiers Single-Handedly:

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"Don't fuck with emus"
-Sun Tzu

[xwers]

Where are the Veteran Emu graveyards? True Patriots

[MisterMooo]

As an Australian, I can confirm that the emu is on our national emblem, so they won.

[verlocitybrand]

I love how professional Simon is. No over enthusiasm or cringy joke.

[jmconesa]

Why havent we had a videogame about this one yet?

[goawaygosh]

This is all just nothing but emu propaganda.

[boglenight]

America: "So Australia, what's the most incredible war you've ever been in?"
Australia: "Well one time we took on over twenty thousand bulletproof dinosaurs with just a couple of men and a machine gun"
America: "Never leave our side!"

[TorquemadaTwist]

Batman... Meh. Wolverine... Yawn. Emuman... Awesome!

[KiesandNoob]

>be Australia
>declare war on birds
>lose

[Unknownuser-iiri]

they declared war....on a bunch of







only IN Australia!!

[SavageGreywolf]

there was one casualty on the Australian side: dignity.

[hidemisakamoto]

They failed because they did not apply the combined arms doctrine. They needed to have armored tracked vehicles, close air support, medium and heavy artillery, chemical and biological warfare units, special operatives behind the lines dressed as emus, as well as Ghurka's.

[qbmac]

"The middle of Australia is largely uninhabited by anyone with, well, sense"
An Australian politician said something like this a few years back and the controversy it caused was incredible.

[hmr]

funny how we never learned this at school and im Aussie

[robo]

10.000 bullets against 20.000 emus...
Sounds like a great idea...

[rachupranger]

Battlefield 1 Australia: The Great Emu War DLC confirmed.

[Yvexius]

Humans first "recorded" inter-species war and we lost 😂

[Cayden]

And I quote from a former veteran of the Emu War;

“We were on patrol one afternoon, deep in hostile territory. My team leader, whom we were all close mates with, had been with us from the start. This particular afternoon we were patrolling down Feather Valley when the bastards ambushed us from two sides. Our left and right flanks were hit hard by the feathered devils. One Emu had impaled my old mate of thirty years right through his chest with his long head, and looked at me with an evil stare. It squawked, a terrible screeching sound. It sounded like that of a banshee. I grabbed my other mate by the leg as he was being dragged away by his arm from what I remember seeing as a giant black ball of fur. It’s eyes were red and Satan like. It looked like the embodiment of all that is evil. I yelled “FUCK OFF YA CUNT” and gave my mate one last pull on his shoes and got him free of the monsters grip.

Shortly after our ambush, reinforcements arrived, eventually the Emu’s withdrew from the area. I found my old mate, our team leader, dangling upside down from a branch in a tree. His body was clawed and bloodied. I swore to myself I would kill every last one of those cunts...”

[qienna]

As a NZer, the great emu war is one of my favourite stories to (lightheartedly) mock Australians about