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A quick reference for Japanese NCO swords
Just to help keep you straight. Authorized for production in 1935, the Type 95, commonly referred to as the NCO sword was all-machine made unlike the more expensive and higher-quality Officer’s sword....
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 23, 2015: Big Chris from Norway
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Manuel García García
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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The gray ghosts of the Gulf Coast, 1964
“Sept. 13[1964] A RARE SIGHT—Aircraft carriers and battleships aren’t seen together at sea these days, primarily because all of America’s battlewagons are in mothballs. But two historic veterans of WW...
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DARPA looking at U-boat kites
During WWII, the Kriegsmarine’s U-boat fleet used about 200~ Focke-Achgelis FA 330 Bachstelze (English: Wagtail) aircraft. The FA330 was a type of rotary-wing kite that weighed about 150-pounds and,...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 30, 2015: The Deseret Battlewagon
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Forgotten import: The Swiss/Italian Vetterli rifle
In the 1860s, the Swiss government went looking for a rifle that would replace older percussion muskets and elevate them into the revolution in worldwide military arms ushered in with the U.S. Civil...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 7, 2015: Los Submarinos!
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 14, 2015: The great return of the hurricane Apache
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Albert Brenet
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 21, 2015: The humble yet resilient Frenchman
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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The Belgian Rattlesnake: Curious case of the iconic Lewis Gun
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Isaac Newton Lewis took a failed design and ran with it, producing one of the best light machine guns the world saw in the first half of the 20th Century. The Buffalo Arms Company or...
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Everything old is new again, at least as far as Western elite forces go
The news out of the UK is that on Monday 30th November 2015, 16 Air Assault Brigade will re-subordinate under Commander Field Army (CFA) from Joint Helicopter Command (JHC). To mark the occasion 16 Air...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Claus Bergen
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like...
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Warship Wednesday Nov.4th, 2015: HMs long-lasting welterweight sluggers
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Crossing the line
Crossing the Line, in which veteran Sons of Neptune, termed Shellbacks, initiate Pollywogs, sailors who have never crossed the Equator, into the Kingdom of Neptune upon their first time reaching that...
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A no-nonsense Devil and his Reising, 70 years on
Sergeant Michael Strank (10 Nov 1919–1 Mar 1945) was one of the six Marines who raised the second flag on Mt.Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. He died on Iwo Jima on 1 March 1945 when his squad...
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Kopel on Jewish resistance
A group of Jewish partisans in the Rudniki forest, near Vilna, between 1942 and 1944. I’ve spoken with noted Second Amendment attorney David Kopel numerous times over the past several years about his...
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Vive la France
As a salute to France. Here we see the battleship Richelieu as viewed from USS Saratoga (CV-3), during operations with the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean, 1944, her tricolor proud in the wind. (Photo:...
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Weird but functional enough for 100+ years of service
Ian from Forgotten Weapons takes a look at the curious inner workings of a Danish Madsen light machine gun. Its an oddball falling block action that originates from the gas lamp era. Oh, and the neat...
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