All Episodes
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Four Carriers in Flames: How the U.S. Turned the Tide at Midway
Headline Wednesday: Battle of Midway, World War II follows the carrier ambush that shattered Japan’s early momentum in the central Pacific. From the coral runways of M...
“Underway on Nuclear Power”: USS Nautilus and the Birth of the Nuclear Navy
Headline Wednesday: USS Nautilus and the Birth of the Nuclear Navy, early Cold War. In this episode, we follow the gray hull that slipped away from Groton and quietly ...
Raid on Son Tay: Special Forces, Air Power, and a Mission With No Prisoners
Headline Wednesday: Raid on Son Tay, Vietnam War takes listeners into the low-level night flight toward a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp just west of Hanoi, whe...
Secrets at Sixty Thousand Feet: The U-2 Program and the Day Powers Was Shot Down
Headline Wednesday: U-2 Shootdown over Sverdlovsk, Cold War. A lone spy plane cruising at 60,000 feet over the Soviet Union suddenly becomes the center of a global cri...
From a Carrier Deck to Tokyo: How the Doolittle Raiders Took the War to Japan
Headline Wednesday: Doolittle Raid, Second World War (Pacific Theater) traces the first American air strike on Japan’s home islands, from a crowded carrier deck in the...
Into the City: Marines, Soldiers, and the Second Battle of Fallujah
Headline Wednesday: The Second Battle of Fallujah, Iraq War takes listeners back into the most intense urban fighting of the early 2000s, as Marines, soldiers, Iraqi u...
Black Hawk Down: How Rangers and Delta Held On in the Streets of Mogadishu
Headline Wednesday: Black Hawk Down, Somalia 1993 follows the October raid over Mogadishu’s Bakara Market, where a quick snatch mission turned into a long urban surviv...
Abrams vs T-72: The Desert Tank Duels That Shocked the World
Headline Wednesday: Abrams vs T-72 in Desert Storm, Gulf War follows the M1 Abrams’ combat debut as it drives into the blacked-out Kuwaiti desert and meets Soviet-desi...
Opening Shock: How Stealth and Precision Air Strikes Crippled Iraqi Command
Headline Wednesday: Opening Night of Desert Storm, Gulf War follows the first hours of the air campaign as coalition aircraft slip into the skies over Baghdad to shatt...
House to House in Hue: Marines, Soldiers, and the Battle for a Citadel
Headline Wednesday: Battle for Hue City, Vietnam War follows Marines, soldiers, and South Vietnamese forces as they fight block by block for a historic imperial capita...
Breakout From Chosin: How Surrounded Marines Fought Their Way to the Sea
Headline Wednesday: Breakout from Chosin, Korean War follows a frozen column of Marines and soldiers fighting their way out of encirclement in the mountains of North K...
The Blood-Soaked Reef: How the Fight for Tarawa Shaped Amphibious Warfare
Headline Wednesday: The Battle of Tarawa, Second World War, drops you onto the blood-soaked reef where the 2nd Marine Division fought its way toward Betio’s seawall un...
Last Stand of USS Johnston: How a Destroyer Fought a Japanese Battle Line
Headline Wednesday: USS Johnston and the destroyers at Samar, World War II follows a thin line of “small boys” that suddenly find a Japanese battle line bearing down o...
Legacy: 1969 USS Enterprise Ordnance Disaster
In January 1969, the nuclear-powered carrier USS Enterprise faced one of the most devastating peacetime disasters in U.S. Navy history. A single misfired rocket ignite...
Living History: How the Medal of Honor Found Its Meaning (Part 1)
In this Living History episode for Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, Dr. Jason Edwards opens a two-part series on the Medal of Honor by stepping back from indi...
“Nuts” at Bastogne: How Airborne Troops Held the Line in the Ardennes
Headline Wednesday: Bastogne, Battle of the Bulge follows the story of a snowbound crossroads town that refused to yield under fire. Surrounded by German armor and inf...
Legacy: Wasp-Hobson Collision and Command at Sea
On a moonless Atlantic night in 1952, routine carrier operations turned into catastrophe when the USS Wasp and her plane guard destroyer USS Hobson collided during a t...
The Foggy Tank Battle That Shattered a Panzer Force
Headline Wednesday: The Foggy Tank Battle at Arracourt, Second World War traces a days-long armored clash fought in thick Lorraine fog, where American crews in Sherman...
Legacy: Drones Before Drones
From the smoke-filled skies above Fleurus in 1794 to the buzzing wooden Kettering Bug of 1918, militaries have long searched for ways to see and strike without risking...
Legacy: Combat Engineers as War-Makers
Combat engineers have long been the arsenal behind the lines, shaping victory in ways that rarely make the history books. From minefield breaches to river crossings, f...