Chris Kavelin
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
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And you can't do anything else.
All your higher functions are gone.
And so when the soldiers land, you may have seen movies where the soldiers land and what kind of things they're facing.
with enemy fire straight away as the ships unload them.
If they're throwing up and bent over on the beach, vomiting with nausea, there's no way they can fight.
And so it's just impossible to have a successful D-Day
in that condition d-day could be a disaster before it's even begun that the stakes of that are huge yeah absolutely you know potentially without a way to fix that we don't have a victory and we don't win the war and we don't overthrow hitler at least not in the way that we experienced it in this history
So they had identified that the corkwood tree had very high levels of scopolamine, which is the chemical compound that interrupts the neural pathways between the inner ear and the brainstem.
In fact, superior levels to what Europe was providing prior to them running out.
And they let the commanders know through the Australian military
that this plant could potentially provide a ample supply of the drug that they had a shortage of.
The generals were quite excited and they developed a top secret mission for this plant to be airlifted to Europe to be used to make this new seasickness medicine.
Yeah, it's crazy.
And it's like, it's just kind of shocking to know something so important to our military history isn't out there in our schools, you know, and part of our...
our normal knowledge in Australia.
Well, from correspondence of soldiers around that time, they took it as they left because it's not a very long trip, right?
It's quite a short trip across the English Channel to Normandy.
And the soldiers, both in the airplanes and on the boats,
would take it shortly after leaving and they had instructions and they were given these little boxes that had six tablets each in their kits so obviously if the effects wore off they were given instructions that they could take another one and the side effects of this are kind of interesting like uh drowsiness dry mouth there are some stories that's like some of the soldiers even fell asleep on their feet is that true yeah according to the first-hand correspondence we have from some of the soldiers that was preserved
there was descriptions of soldiers falling asleep on their feet or waking up only when, you know, the back of the boats were, you know, opening for them to get ready to go on shore.
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