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SPYRON and the Secret Submarine Lifeline to the Philippines

While the Philippines endured Japanese occupation, American submarines carried weapons, medicine, radios, and intelligence teams to guerrillas still fighting behind enemy lines. On October 25, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur publicly revealed the undersea supply campaign that had helped sustain the…

Snook Attacks

On October 24, 1944, USS Snook (SS-279) pressed repeated torpedo attacks against Japanese shipping in the South China Sea, then went deep as escorts answered with depth charges. Her crew survived the engagement, but identifying the ships they struck would leave questions that persisted long after t…

2 Attacks... 18 Depth Charges

On October 27, 1944, USS Kingfish (SS-234) launched two torpedo attacks and survived eighteen depth charges near Iwo Jima. Yet her crew ended the day without knowing the full results of their actions. In this episode of Patrol Reports, Dave Bowman follows Kingfish’s ninth war patrol through a night…

DDH | Trenton

By Christmas 1776, George Washington’s army was running out of men and time. Months of defeat had driven the Americans across New Jersey, enlistments were about to expire, and Washington feared the Revolution was nearing its end. His response was an attack that depended on crossing an ice-choked ri…

Alaska Goes Full Eddie Murphy

Did somebody mistake an Eddie Murphy comedy for a campaign manual? Dave Bowman opens with The Distinguished Gentleman and Alaska’s two Dan Sullivans, examining an alleged election spoiler scheme, Trump’s demands for prosecution, and a similar namesake stunt in Washington state. Deliberately confusi…

Seawolf Sinks Gifu Maru off Davao

On November 2, 1942, USS Seawolf (SS-197) maneuvered through shifting currents and deteriorating weather outside Davao Gulf before launching an attack on the Japanese ship Gifu Maru. Commander Frederick “Fearless Freddie” Warder’s patrol report documents the changing firing plan, the observed torpe…

On the Eve of Destruction

Dave Bowman opens the show from his Silverdale studio with little optimism about tomorrow’s elections. He argues that the real problem runs deeper than expected Republican losses: the erosion of shared American principles. Where parties once differed mainly on how to reach the same goals of individ…

8,600 Miles Under Her Own Power: USS S-2’s Record Voyage

In 1921, USS S-2 (SS-106) made a voyage that drew national attention: 8,600 miles from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Pearl Harbor in a reported 29 sailing days. Traveling through the Panama Canal and onward across the Pacific, the submarine demonstrated the growing ability of American boats to reac…

DDH - Deal With the Devil

In 1876, America celebrated its centennial and then plunged into one of the most bitterly disputed presidential elections in its history. Samuel Tilden won the popular vote, Rutherford B. Hayes ultimately secured the presidency, and the struggle over twenty electoral votes exposed a nation still di…

The Sun Is Going to Come Up

The election is over, and Dave Bowman has a few thoughts about what comes next. In a candid, unscripted edition of Plausibly Live, Dave considers the familiar cycle of midterm backlash, Congress’s permanent campaign, Washington State’s growing tax burden, and his expectations for another round of p…