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Warship Wednesday 16 September 2026: The Submarine Altered across my Bows and...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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The Woods are full of Finnish Dragoons
Here we see, some 85 years ago this month, a Finnish dragoon (Rakuuna) on horseback, 12th of September 1941, near Tsalkki-Suojärvi on the Russo-Finnish border during the Continuation War between the...
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Beachcombing in East Greenland
The Danes are currently hosting 400 soldiers from 11 NATO countries in a large ground force exercise in Greenland, and just wrapped up a rare joint exercise with SNMG1 and SNMCMG1 off Iceland for...
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First Team at Work on the Edge of the Storm
This week is the 105th anniversary of the establishment of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division. To celebrate, how about this great photo essay of American horse cavalry in the field, Fort Bliss, Texas,...
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Not war, but you can see it from here
Some 85 years ago this week. Somewhere in the U-boat-filled North Atlantic. Convoy to Iceland, September 1941: the New Orleans-class heavy cruiser USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) hoists in a Curtiss SOC...
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Warship Wednesday 9 September 2026: We were in action a Tremendous Amount of...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Sad final note for a 110-foot subchaser
On 23 May 1942, the 110-foot SC-497-class wooden-hulled submarine chaser PC-772 was laid down at the Peyton Co., Newport Beach, California, and commissioned on 15 April 1943 as USS SC-772, likely...
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Siempre Presente
Dig those M1903s with long M1905 bayonets, M1917 Brodie helmets, Great War style leggings, and M2 gas masks, seen some 85 years ago this month on the eve of the U.S. entrance to WWII. NARA Local...
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Glamorous Goose
Some 75 years ago this month, aboard Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco, September 1951. How about a sharp original period Kodachrome of a beautiful Grumman (G-38) Goose amphibian JRF-5G, USCG Hull...
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Clydebank Beauty
Some 110 years ago this month, a great view of the conning tower and forward turrets, complete with newly-installed 15″/42 Mark I guns, of the future Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Repulse, seen whilst...
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The Germans still really love Dragons Teeth
3 April 1945. Original Caption: “Dragon teeth on the Siegfried Line presented an obstacle to tanks of U. S. Seventh Army in the Wissembourg area, France. Note teeth extend to mountains which raise a...
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First Crabs, now 85 years in the rearview
Some 85 years ago this week, on 22 August 1941, at the Navy Gun Factory (now the Washington Navy Yard), Mine Recovery School Class No. 1 graduated, minting 10 officers (three of them Coasties), five...
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A Last look at the old Sultan, 60 Years Ago
On the road in Idaho at an industry event, so instead of our regular Warship Wednesday programming, please accept this glimpse of the past. Every warship fan knows of the (in)famous Great War-era...
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Hammerhead Sovereign
The Royal Navy R-class battleship HMS Royal Sovereign (05) in 1941 was a Great War-era bruiser who was having a very busy year. With larger German surface raiders amok in the North Atlantic, she rode...
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Warship Wednesday 19 August 2026: Ward? Is that you?
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Deckies Recalling the old DEMs Gunners
The British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is roughly akin to the U.S. Military Sealift Command (MSC) in that they man naval auxiliaries with civilian mariners on contract. While the MSC’s CIVMARs kinda...
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Army Jungleers making a GOYA comeback
The Army is getting a newfound interest in jungle warfare. COL Keith W. Benedict and CPT Christian M. Hert have a great article in Line of Departure (How Panama’s Crucible is Yet Again Testing...
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Old Mary at Peace
On the road at an industry event all week in Louisiana, so we’re taking a knee on Warship Wednesday. In its place, how about this amazing photo essay by LIFE Photographer Peter Stackpole of the...
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Copenhagen Joes
Filmed 75 years ago in August 1951, this historical video covers the visit to the country of then five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who just four months prior had been named the first Supreme Allied...
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Spotted on the ‘Scope: Lucky Pennsy
Some 90 years ago, from a collection of 70 submarine periscope photographs shot around Pearl Harbor between August and November 1941 to test camera work via such devices, we find a great shot of the...
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