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Army’s (Don’t Call it a) Light Tank Albatross Reappears
The U.S. Army has had problems with not wanting, but still needing, a decent light tank for generations. World War II showed the lesson of having a decent light track in the form of the 15-ton M3/M5...
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Warship Wednesday, May 7, 2025: Ray of Hope
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Chopping it up along the Verde Trail
It happened 80 years ago. 8 May 1945. Caballero Mountains, Luzon. While peace of a sort had come to Europe, WWII continued to roar in the Pacific. Here we see a M15 Combination Gun Motor Carriage...
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Echoes of Anschluss in the Lowlands
The Federal State of Austria was swallowed up without a shot by the German Reich in March 1938, with the Wehrmacht’s 8th Army marching over the border in the so-called Blumenkrieg (“Flower War”). Of...
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CZ Salutes WWII Free Czech RAF Squadrons
CZ is marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II with a salute to the often unsung “Free Czechs” who served with the Allies with a special Spitfire-themed CZ 75. Occupied by Germany on the...
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The final Panzer Brigade
It happened 80 years ago this week: Panzer IIIs of the intact “Panzer-Brigade Norwegen” surrendered around 14 May 1945 to the British of Force 134 at Trandum Leir. The rest of the German Army and...
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Sailing to surrender, again
Surrender of German High Seas Fleet, as seen from USS New York, 21 November 1918. Oil on canvas by Bernard F. Gribble, 1920. NH 58842-KN It happened 80 years ago today. Much like the internment of the...
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Warship Wednesday, May 14, 2025: Apogee
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Supero
Sergeant Pilot F. H. Dean of No. 274 Squadron RAF examines belts of .303 ammunition before they are installed in his Hurricane at Sidi Barrani, Egypt, circa early 1941. IWM (CM 868) In the background,...
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Not Quite Cryptids
It happened 70 years ago this week, 16 May 1955. Official caption, “Japanese Army Pfc. Kaichiro Eguchi is pictured in Canlubang Army Headquarters (in Calamba, Laguna), after his long overdue surrender...
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