Arsenal: New Mexico-class Battleships in the Pacific, World War II

Arsenal: New Mexico-class Battleships in the Pacific, World War II follows three standard-type American battleships from cold Aleutian bombardments to kamikaze firestorms at Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, tracing how pre–World War I designs were pushed to their limits in the last great island campaigns. Listeners hear these ships in action on the gun line, the strategic problem they were built to solve, how their designers balanced armor, speed, and firepower, and what it felt like to live and fight inside a steel town at sea. The episode shows how their combat record and postwar roles shaped battleship doctrine and memory. Arsenal is the Friday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, and the podcast is developed by Trackpads.com.