US Naval History Podcast

The fighting now begins!

This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.

This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later...

The fighting now begins!

This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.

This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later...

The fighting now begins!

This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.

This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later...

This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.

This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later.

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This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.

This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later...

Today the United States can drone strike it's enemies almost anywhere in the world with non-explosive Hellfire missiles that deploy blades to slice through a target with almost no risk to nearby civilians. It is the latest-and-greatest expression of an American quest for precision strike that began in WWI, carried through (with sometimes disastrous results) WWII, into the nuclear era of the Cold War, and continues today in the drone age...

The USS Hornet was resting upright on the ocean floor 17,500 feet deep. It was mostly intactwith SBD Dauntless dive-bombers, TBD Devastator torpedo bombers and F4F Wildcat fighters scattered on the sea bed in concentric circles around the wreck.

It had been there for more than 77 years, yet the wooden deck was still intact, minus bomb damage. The AA guns were still pointing up, as if still fending off Japanese "Val" dive bombers...

US and UK forces have been jointly carrying out a continuous drumbeat of strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen over the past three weeks.

Unfortunately, in the words of President Biden, “Well, when you say are they working, no. Are they going to continue, yes...

The Fulton the First was the world's first steam powered warship. Designed to defend New York Harbor against the British in the War of 1812. She never saw action, but did succeed in scaring the public and British war planners and inspired the first generation of European steam warships who feared foundational shift in naval technology which the Fulton heralded in. Follow me on X: ⁠⁠⁠@USNavyPodcast⁠ Follow me on IG: ⁠⁠⁠@USNavyPodcast⁠⁠⁠ Email me at: usnavalhistorypodcast@gmail.com

Naval history is being made right now. The Houthi rebels in Yemen conducted a drone, cruise missile, and ballistic missile combined attack (with Iranian help) against a guarded convoy near the Bab al-Mandab Strait on January 9th, and just now the US and UK conducted a joint naval strike against the Houthi rebels in Yemen using planes and submarine-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Stay tunes for more soon...