Arsenal: AH-64 Apache in Desert Storm, 1991 follows the United States Army’s main attack helicopter from its low-level night raid on Iraqi radar sites to deep strikes against armored columns in the Gulf War and beyond. This episode traces how the Apache was built to solve the problem of massed Warsaw Pact armor, walks through its development and crew experience, and then follows it into combat over Iraq, Afghanistan, and other modern battlefields. Listeners hear how its sensors, weapons, strengths, and weaknesses shaped tactics on both sides, and how later Longbow and Guardian variants evolved the design. Arsenal is the Friday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and the podcast is developed by Trackpads.com.

Headline Wednesday: Submarine War in the Pacific, World War II takes you beneath the gray swells and into the steel hulls where a small community of United States submariners waged a quiet, ruthless campaign against Japan’s lifelines. This episode follows the men who hunted tankers and freighters in the dark, threading minefields and depth-charge patterns to cut the flow of fuel, ore, and food that kept an island empire fighting. Headline Wednesday is the Wednesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and the series is developed by Trackpads dot com, bringing undersea ambushes, convoy battles, and high-risk patrols into clear, human focus.
Across the episode, you will hear how a peacetime scouting force turned into a lethal commerce raider arm through bitter torpedo failures, stubborn testing, and new technology like radar and codebreaking. We trace the learning curve from cautious early patrols to aggressive wolfpack tactics, then follow the consequences as Japanese shipping lanes empty, factories slow, and frontline garrisons starve. It is a journey from periscope crosshairs on a single freighter to the larger collapse of an overextended empire at sea. Use this story as a refresher for your own reading, wargaming, or staff-ride prep, and pair it with the Dispatch Audio Editions at dispatch.trackpads.com or your regular podcast app.

This Week in U.S. Military History: June 30th, 2026–July 6th, 2026 traces a powerful arc from the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the brutal three days at Gettysburg to the hard climb up San Juan Hill and the fall of Vicksburg on the Mississippi. Listeners move from muddy Civil War crossroads at Glendale to the moment the United States Army Air Corps is created, and on to Philippine independence and the first desperate clashes of the Korean War at Osan. Along the way, the story confronts nuclear restraint in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the tragedy of Iran Air Flight 655 over the Gulf.

Across these seven days on the calendar, the narrative blends battlefield decisions, institutional change, and the human cost of error, always returning to what these anniversaries meant for the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines who lived them. “This Week in U.S. Military History” is the Tuesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads.com, and the episode offers a clear, respectful walk through each moment, showing how leadership, adaptation, and memory continue to shape American arms and service.

Beyond the Call: Corporal Arthur O. Beyer at Arloncourt, Belgium, 1945 tells the story of a tank destroyer gunner whose solo advance under fire helped break a German defensive line in the closing months of the Second World War. This episode follows Beyer’s life from rural Iowa to the snow-covered ridges of Belgium, tracing the ambush that pinned his armored column, the daring assault that silenced enemy guns and captured dozens of soldiers, and the broader impact on the winter campaign. Listeners hear a clear narrative of the action, context around the Battle of the Bulge, and a reflection on leadership, initiative, and responsibility. Beyond the Call is the Monday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and the podcast is developed by Trackpads.com.

Arsenal: F-4 Phantom II in the Air War over Vietnam, 1965–1973 follows the big twin-engine fighter from Rolling Thunder to the Linebacker campaigns, tracing how Phantom crews fought over Hanoi, the Red River delta, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Listeners hear the jet in action under surface-to-air missile fire, the fleet-defense problem it was built to solve, how designers turned that concept into a multirole workhorse, and what it felt like to fly and fight in its smoke trails. The episode also weighs its strengths and weaknesses, variants, and lasting legacy. Arsenal is the Friday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and the podcast is developed by Trackpads.com.

Headline Wednesday: Battle of the Philippine Sea, Second World War, drops you into the “Great Marianas Turkey Shoot,” when U.S. carrier pilots and submariners shredded Japan’s remaining naval air power over the blue waters west of Saipan. This episode traces the morning radar contacts, the launch of F6F Hellcats from Task Force 58, and the disorganized Japanese raids struggling through layered fighter and anti-aircraft defenses. Along the way, you’ll hear how the Marianas landings, Spruance’s and Mitscher’s decisions, and Ozawa’s A-Go plan all collided in a single, sprawling carrier clash. Headline Wednesday is the Wednesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and the series is developed by Trackpads.com.

This Week in U.S. Military History: June 23rd, 2026–June 29th, 2026 traces how the same week on the calendar links Monmouth’s blistering heat, Little Bighorn’s shock on the Plains, Marines digging Germans out of Belleau Wood, and American troops forcing open the port of Cherbourg. Listeners hear how the Treaty of Versailles tries to lock in peace, how the Korean War erupts almost overnight, and how a president’s words in Berlin become part of the Cold War frontline. The narrative follows each moment into its wider war or era, showing what changed for the people in uniform on the ground.

From the first Soviet moves in the Berlin Blockade to the roar of transport aircraft in the airlift and the roar of jets over Hanoi’s fuel depots, the week’s stories reveal logistics, air power, and diplomacy working alongside riflemen and gunners. The episode highlights threads of leadership, adaptation, and consequence that run from eighteenth-century fields to twentieth-century treaty halls and flight lines. This Week in U.S. Military History is the Tuesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads dot com, inviting listeners to walk these dates and consider how each decision still echoes in American defense today.

Beyond the Call: Private Ova A. Kelley at Buri Airstrip, Leyte, 1944 follows a rifleman in World War II’s Pacific campaign as a single, stunning act of courage shatters a Japanese strongpoint and unlocks a stalled American attack. Listeners hear the ground-level narrative of Kelley’s solo charge, the wider fight for Leyte and its vital airfields, and a reflective look at how initiative, responsibility, and sacrifice define real leadership under fire. Beyond the Call is the Monday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and the podcast is developed by Trackpads.com, bringing the human stories behind the Medal of Honor to life in your headphones.