It is one of the more difficult sentences to write with a straight face in modern history: in 1932, Australia declared war on a flock of large flightless birds, and the birds won. The episode is true, well-documented, and considerably stranger in the details than in the popular summary. Major Gwynydd Purves Wynne-Aubrey Meredith of [...] The post In 1932, the Australian government deployed soldiers with two machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition to wage war on roughly 20,000 emus destroying wheat crops in Western Australia — and after weeks of campaign, the soldiers had killed only a few hundred birds, in the only war on record in which birds officially won appeared first on Space Daily .
In 1932, the Australian government deployed soldiers with two machine guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition to wage war on roughly 20,000 emus destroying wheat crops in Western Australia — and after weeks of campaign, the soldiers had killed only a few hundred birds, in the only war on record in which birds officially won
