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The U.S. Navy History Podcast

by Dale Robertson

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  • 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…

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  • 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…

  • World War Two's Secret Oil War: Germany's U-Boat Campaign in the Caribbean

    August 2, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

    In February 1942, five German U-boats under Kapitänleutnant Werner Hartenstein struck the refineries of Aruba, Curaçao, and Venezuela within a single hour, opening the World War Two Battle of the Caribbean — Germany's bid to sever the…

  • 31-Knot Burke and the Last Night of the Tokyo Express

    July 26, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min

    On Thanksgiving Eve, 1943, off Cape St. George in the Solomon Islands campaign, Captain Arleigh "31-Knot" Burke's Destroyer Squadron 23 ambushed a Japanese resupply convoy in total darkness — sinking the destroyers Onami, Makinami, and…

  • Guadalcanal's Confused Victory — The Night Off Cape Esperance

    July 19, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min

    On the night of October 11–12, 1942, off Cape Esperance, Guadalcanal, the U.S. Navy won its first surface victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War — two months after the catastrophic defeat at Savo Island. Rear Admiral…

  • The Fugitive Who Gave America Its Navy

    July 12, 2026 · 1 hr 32 min

    On September 23rd, 1779, off Flamborough Head, England, Captain John Paul Jones fought the Royal Navy frigate Serapis to a standstill aboard a sinking, undergunned Bonhomme Richard — and won, even as his own ship went down beneath him two…

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