The U.S. Navy History Podcast

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Latest episodes

• Is the Aircraft Carrier the Next Battleship?

  October 4, 2026 · 54 min

  Is the aircraft carrier the next battleship? Dale tests the 2026 drone swarm threat against the battleship's fall, from Billy Mitchell and Prince of Wales to the kamikazes off Okinawa. Black Sea drone boats, the Red Sea, the 2026 Iran war…

• Mines, Mayhem, and a Missing Admiral: The 1944 Navy Raid on Palau in the Pacific War.

  September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 41 min

  Operation Desecrate One, the March 1944 World War II carrier raid on Palau in the western Pacific, drove Japan’s Combined Fleet from its last great forward anchorage. Dale and Christophe follow Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher’s eleven carriers…

• Coral Sea: The Battle That Bought Midway

  September 20, 2026 · 1 hr 24 min

  The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought May 4–8, 1942, was the first naval battle in history where opposing fleets never saw each other — carriers duking it out entirely through scout planes and radio reports. A Japanese strike force burns its…

• 25 Years Later: How USS George Washington Became the Navy's First Responder to 9/11

  September 13, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

  On September 11th, 2001, while running routine sea trials off the Virginia coast, USS George Washington (CVN-73) became the U.S. Navy's first responder to the attacks on New York and the Pentagon — designated command ship for East Coast…

• How Sailors Forced the Navy to Take Back a Direct Order

  September 6, 2026 · 1 hr 37 min

  On September 29, 2016, the U.S. Navy eliminated every enlisted rating title — Boatswain's Mate, Machinist's Mate, Hospital Corpsman, all of it — replacing two hundred and forty-one years of trade identity with rank alone. Eighty-three days…

• Christmas Island, 1942: Mutiny, a Broken Torpedo, and a Battle Fought Underwater.

  August 30, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min

  On March 31, 1942, a Japanese invasion force found Christmas Island's defenses already gone — its 32-man garrison wiped out three weeks earlier by their own mutinying soldiers. The real fight happened underwater, where USS Seawolf, under…

• Unsinkable Sam and the Navy's Other Ship's Cats

  August 23, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

  From Matthew Flinders' cat Trim, who circumnavigated Australia in 1801, to Unsinkable Sam, who survived the sinkings of the battleship Bismarck, HMS Cossack, and HMS Ark Royal within six months in 1941, ship's cats served — and died…

• Casablanca, 1942: America's Strangest Naval Battle

  August 9, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

  On November 8, 1942, the U.S. Navy fought a battleship duel, three destroyer actions, and a submarine hunt off Casablanca, Morocco — against France. The Naval Battle of Casablanca, part of Operation Torch's invasion of North Africa, pitted…