The U.S. Navy History Podcast

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The U.S. Navy History Podcast is a history podcast hosted by Dale Robertson, with 201 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dale Robertson hosts The U.S. Navy History Podcast, a history show with 201 episodes published.

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  Is the Aircraft Carrier the Next Battleship?

  Oct 4, 202654 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, and China's anti-carrier swarm plan all get red-teamed. The verdict: drones won't sink a carrier, but in the Western Pacific she stands at the battleship's edge.

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

  Sep 27, 20261h 41m

  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 of Task Force 58, the first carrier-laid minefield of the Pacific War, and USS Tunny’s torpedo hit on the superbattleship Musashi. Then the chain reaction: Admiral Mineichi Koga vanishes in a storm, and Japan’s Z Plan washes up off Cebu. Through it all, one survivor of USS Tullibee watches from a Japanese prison tree. The raid nobody remembers, and why it mattered.

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  Coral Sea: The Battle That Bought Midway

  Sep 20, 20261h 24m

  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 morning hunting the oiler USS Neosho and destroyer USS Sims, mistaken for carriers, while an American strike sinks the light carrier Shōhō in twenty minutes flat. USS Lexington goes down after a delayed gasoline explosion; USS Yorktown limps home to a three-day emergency repair under Nimitz's orders. Tactically inconclusive. Strategically, it's the battle that made Midway winnable a month later.

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

  Sep 13, 20261h 1m

  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 air defense within three hours, under Vice Admiral J. Cutler Dawson, and steaming overnight to stand three miles off Coney Island by dawn. Over the next five days her air wings flew 234 armed patrols, without a single accident. Co-host Dale was aboard as a young Machinist's Mate — and for the first time, tells that story himself: asleep when it started, in the hangar bay when the smoke came into view.

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  How Sailors Forced the Navy to Take Back a Direct Order

  Sep 6, 20261h 37m

  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 later, after a hundred-thousand-signature petition, a fourteen-hundred-sailor town hall at Naval Station Norfolk, and a public feud between chief petty officers in the Navy's own professional journal, Admiral John Richardson reversed it completely. Dale traces the rating system from the 1794 Naval Act through the 1885 chevron badge and the 1893 creation of Chief Petty Officer, to the fastest full policy reversal in modern Navy history — and why the Navy still trusts a name over a number

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