The six-foot-tall birds employed guerilla-like tactics to fluster machine gun-equipped soldiers sent to stop emu-related ...
In 1932, an unlikely conflict unfolded in Western Australia that left military leaders puzzled and historians amazed. Over 20,000 emus—large, fast-running, flightless birds—descended on farmlands ...
In 1932, the Government of Australia entered into an unconventional 'war' with an unexpected adversary, namely, a large ...
In 1932, the Australian military went to war armed with machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition. They lost. Their opponents weren't a foreign army or rebel forces—they were emus, large flightless ...