The Brodie helmet was surprisingly bullet resistant
Mike B recently did a ballistic test on a historic WWII-era Brodie-style British Mark II steel helmet, and it is fairly surprising. Don’t freak out too much about destroying a collectible, as the...
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Bo Bo is Back Baby!
The new and more permanent (the old 1951 pact was only in effect as long as NATO existed) three-way military agreement between Greenland, Denmark, and the U.S. has a couple of big takeaways. One is the...
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Warship Wednesday 23 September 2026: With a Soaring Spirit
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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Auto Ordnance Keeps up the Nose Art 1911s
I’ve dug what Pennsylvania-based Auto-Ordnance has done in the past with their WWII-themed M1911A1s, for instance, with their Black Sheep Squadron salute back in 2024. A functional work of art,...
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Tinnitus with a universal adapter
Some 85 years ago, during the epic eight-month siege of Sevastopol. Wehrmacht soldiers of II/Artillerie-Regiment 814, 11th Army, Army Group Sud, cover their ears as a Czech-made Skoda 9.45-inch...
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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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