History of the Marine Corps Podcast
1) WWII E163 - Waiting for X-Day: Marines in the Shadow of Downfall
This episode follows the Marines from the mud and caves of Okinawa into the strange, uneasy rehabilitation camps on Guam, Saipan, Motobu, and Hawaii, where exhausted divisions rebuilt, trained, and qu...Show More
2) Chapter 15: The Long Thread of Fidelity
This episode pulls together the long wars and the quiet missions that followed. It starts in Anbar and along the Syrian border, with Lioness teams at checkpoints, battalions fighting through al Qaim a...Show More
3) Chapter 14: Beyond the Euphrates
The surge years in Afghanistan sit at the center of this episode. We start in Marjah and Sangin, where canals, poppy fields, and mud walls turned into kill zones. The story follows the grinding losses...Show More
4) Chapter 13: The Long War
The Cold War ended, but crises kept coming. This episode opens in the Balkans, where Yugoslavia's breakup pulls Marines into a different mission. Offshore in the Adriatic, they fly strikes, launch res...Show More
5) Chapter 12: The Burden of Good Intentions
Vietnam ended, but its shadow did not. This episode opens with Project 100,000 and the Pentagon Papers, where promises of opportunity and careful strategy give way to lowered standards, hidden escalat...Show More
6) Chapter 11: Honor in a Broken War
Vietnam began as a distant commitment and became America's longest war. This episode follows the Marines into that storm, from early advisers helping build the Vietnamese Marine Corps to the landings ...Show More
7) Chapter 10: From Tokyo Bay to the 38th Parallel
From the streets of London to the beaches of North Africa, Marines carried their purpose into every corner of a world at war. They trained with the Royal Marines, guarded embassies under fire, planned...Show More
8) Chapter 9: The Last Steps to Japan
From the reefs of Tarawa to the cliffs of Okinawa, this chapter follows the Marines through the final and fiercest battles of the Pacific. It opens with the blood-soaked sands of Tarawa and the shatte...Show More
9) Chapter 8: The War That Awoke the Sea
From the calm of a Sunday morning in Hawaii to the sands of the South Pacific, this chapter marks the turning of the tide. It begins with the shock of Pearl Harbor and the desperate stands at Wake, Gu...Show More
10) Chapter 7: Building the Force That Would Win the Pacific
From the ridges of Blanc Mont to the jungles of China, this chapter follows the Marines as they emerge from the Great War hardened and transformed. It opens on the blood-soaked hills of France, where ...Show More