Arsenal: Cleveland-class Light Cruisers in the Pacific War
Arsenal: Cleveland-class Light Cruisers in the Pacific War follows the hard-worked light cruisers that screened Bougainville landings at Empress Augusta Bay, shelled Leyte and Luzon, and fought through kamikaze skies off Okinawa, tracing how a hurried redesign of a treaty hull became one of the most versatile tools in the United States fleet. Listeners hear the cruisers in action under radar-directed fire, the problem they were built to solve as carrier and amphibious escorts, the design tradeoffs and cramped interiors that shaped daily life for their crews, and a balanced look at their combat record and legacy as early missile platforms. Arsenal is the Friday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and the podcast is developed by Trackpads.com.
