This Week in U.S. Military History: February 24th, 2026–March 2nd, 2026 brings you from George Rogers Clark slogging through flooded frontier country at Vincennes to high-altitude firefights in Afghanistan’s Shah-i-Kot Valley. Along the way, you hear how a peacetime gunnery demonstration aboard USS Princeton turned to tragedy, how panic and flak filled the night sky over Los Angeles in early 1942, and how Allied aircrews in the Southwest Pacific learned to tear apart Japanese convoys in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.

Across the hour, the story moves through Castle Bravo’s enormous nuclear blast at Bikini Atoll, the long grind of Operation Rolling Thunder over North Vietnam, the sweeping “left hook” of Desert Storm’s ground offensive, and the hard lessons of Operation Anaconda. You hear how each moment fits into its wider war, and how themes of adaptation, miscalculation, and endurance echo across generations. This Week in U.S. Military History is the Tuesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads.com.

Beyond the Call: Staff Sergeant George John Hall at Anzio, 1944 follows a young infantry leader from Stoneham, Massachusetts into the brutal Italian campaign of World War II, where his one-man assault on multiple German machine-gun positions turns a stalled attack into a fighting chance for his company. Listeners hear the story of the Anzio beachhead, the exposed farmland his unit had to cross, and the split-second decisions that cost Hall his leg but saved countless lives. The narrative reflects on courage, responsibility, and small-unit leadership under fire. Beyond the Call is the Monday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and this podcast episode is developed by Trackpads.com.

Arsenal: Oliver Hazard Perry–Class Frigates in NATO Sea Lanes, the Late Cold War follows the lean guided missile escorts that guarded convoys in the North Atlantic, faced missiles and mines in the Persian Gulf, and rode into Operation Desert Storm beside carriers and battleships. Listeners hear how Cold War arithmetic drove the need for an affordable general purpose frigate, how gas turbines, a single missile rail, and an embarked helicopter shaped the design, and how crews actually lived and fought inside these tight steel towns at sea. The episode traces their combat record, export variants, and long shadow on later frigate programs, with Arsenal as the Friday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads.com.