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351 - The Greatest Ever Beer Run

Ep. 351

In November 1967 John ‘Chickie’ Donohue went on the most epic beer run of all time, from a New York Bar to the Vietnam War, tune in to hear the story!

 

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

The Greatest Beer Run Ever by John Chick Donohue and J. T. Molloy

https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-chickie-donohue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WAUmyKDq0&t=6s

https://nypost.com/2020/11/07/meet-the-man-who-brought-his-buddies-beer-in-the-vietnam-war/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfoaFasHN2Y

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