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How Sailors Forced the Navy to Take Back a Direct Order (opens the original)
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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
Christmas Island, 1942: Mutiny, a Broken Torpedo, and a Battle Fought Underwater. (opens the original)
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On March 31, 1942, a Japanese invasion force found Christmas Island's defenses already gone — its 32-man garrison wiped out three weeks earlier by their own mutinying soldiers. The real fight happened underwater, where USS Seawolf, under Lieutenant Commander Fred Warder, took on Rear Admiral Shōji Nishimura's three-cruiser, eight-destroyer task force alone, firing nine torpedoes across thirty-three hours against the U.S. Navy's own defective Mark 14 design. Dale and Christophe untangle the mutin
Unsinkable Sam and the Navy's Other Ship's Cats (opens the original)
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From Matthew Flinders' cat Trim, who circumnavigated Australia in 1801, to Unsinkable Sam, who survived the sinkings of the battleship Bismarck, HMS Cossack, and HMS Ark Royal within six months in 1941, ship's cats served — and died — alongside their crews for nearly the entire history of naval warfare. This episode traces the tradition from its origins in rodent control and shipboard superstition through USS Maine, HMS Prince of Wales, and Simon of HMS Amethyst, the only cat ever awarded the Di
Casablanca, 1942: America's Strangest Naval Battle (opens the original)
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On November 8, 1942, the U.S. Navy fought a battleship duel, three destroyer actions, and a submarine hunt off Casablanca, Morocco — against France. The Naval Battle of Casablanca, part of Operation Torch's invasion of North Africa, pitted the battleship USS Massachusetts and Rear Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt's Western Naval Task Force against Vichy French forces defending a neutrality no one back home had agreed to test. Over eight days, the incomplete battleship Jean Bart traded fire with Massach
World War Two's Secret Oil War: Germany's U-Boat Campaign in the Caribbean (opens the original)
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In February 1942, five German U-boats under Kapitänleutnant Werner Hartenstein struck the refineries of Aruba, Curaçao, and Venezuela within a single hour, opening the World War Two Battle of the Caribbean — Germany's bid to sever the Allied oil and bauxite lifeline running through the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Over the next year, U-boats sank nearly 400 ships, accounting for more than a third of everything the Allies lost worldwide in 1942, and dragged Mexico into the war outright. This
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