This episode finishes the story of the greatest naval war in world history, stretching across tens of millions of square miles of ocean, involving thousands of warships, dozens of carrier battles, submarine ambushes, bloody beach landings and harrowing night actions on land and at sea. Listen to the story of the assassination of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, how American submarine warfare succeeded where German submarine warfare failed, the Gilbert and Marshall Island Campaigns (including the...

WWII in the Pacific tells the story of the greatest naval war in world history, stretching across tens of millions of square miles of ocean, involving thousands of warships, dozens of carrier battles, submarine ambushes, bloody beach landings and harrowing night actions on land and at sea. This episode starts with some background on why the Japanese launched the attack on Pearl Harbor before talking about the attack on Pearl Harbor itself.  Learn about the Doolittle Raid and hear part of an...

Starting more than two years before the United States entered WWII following the attack on Pearl Harbor, this episode tells the story of WWII in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters, covering the Battle of the Atlantic, the Sinking of the Bismarck, the breaking of the Enigma codes, and all the way up to D-Day, the invasion of northern France on June 6th, 1944. Follow the show on Twitter and IG @USNavyPodcast or send me and email at [email protected] 

After WWI ended in November of 1918, the victorious world powers looked around realized that even the winners were losers. Yea, Britain and France gained a bunch of colonies and protectorates from the defeated Central Powers, and yeah they were theoretically going to get a reparations payday down the road, but HOLY SHIT, if you’ll excuse the language, it was not freaking worth it. France alone suffered over a million killed in action with another more than four million wounded. Europe’s...

This episode covers the United States as it emerges as a great power on the world stage. We took colonies from Spain and under young President Theodore Roosevelt the Navy expands to match out new Great Power status.  Between the Spanish American War and WWI the Great White Fleet circumnavigates the globe in a display of naval power, the United States builds the Panama Canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enforces our Monroe Doctrine more forcefully with the Roosevelt Corollary and...

At the end of the Civil War the United States was (very briefly) a world-class naval power. But in the midst of a worldwide naval revolution, the United States failed to invest in this technological change after the war ended and quickly fell behind as the country focused on westward expansion.  In the nick of time, Congress invested in the dilapidated United States Navy and began the process of creating a force to again be respected. In this episode, the United States will emerge as a world...