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This Week in History January 20th, 2026 – January 26th, 2026
Episode 42

This Week in History January 20th, 2026 – January 26th, 2026

Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine

January 20, 202617m 10s

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Show Notes

This Week in U.S. Military History: January 20th, 2026–January 26th, 2026 traces a remarkable arc from a Revolutionary War mutiny in frozen New Jersey camps to nuclear alert bombers scattering their dangerous cargo over North Carolina. Along the way, you move from Joseph Hooker’s takeover of the battered Army of the Potomac and the quiet arrival of USS Maine in Havana harbor to the first American ground troops stepping onto European soil in Northern Ireland and the hard, costly gamble of Operation Shingle at Anzio.

Listeners follow a continuous narrative that links the end of the Battle of the Bulge, Audie Murphy’s stand near Holtzwihr, and the launch of USS Nautilus with the siege of Khe Sanh and the seizure of USS Pueblo, showing how leadership, technology, and human endurance collide under pressure. “This Week in U.S. Military History” is the Tuesday feature of Dispatch: U.S. Military History Magazine, developed by Trackpads.com, offering a weekly walk through seven days that reshaped American arms and service.

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