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Warship Wednesday Aug. 31, 2016: The Nebraska stiletto
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A 16-year old lion from Luxembourg
Caption: Members of the 108th company of the FTP (Francs-tireurs et partisans français), the communist resistance group pose with their weapons at a mountain base. Photo: United States Holocaust...
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Anaconda Plan, 1945 Installment
With the anniversary of VJ Day this week, I was brainstorming something. The jury will always be out on just what won the U.S. Civil War: the defeat of Lee in the North, Grant’s splitting of the...
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Repatriation
Click to big up. Snap shot out of the CAF “blue Book” from 1975, via CAF 47 years ago today: On September 5, 1969 the S.S. Rosaldina arrived at the port of Brownsville, Texas from Latin America with...
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The Cobra in the Clouds
Captain Robert L. Faurot with his P-38F Lightning 42-12623 Nose 16 parked at 14 Mile Drome (Schwimmer) Credit: US Army Signal Corps, NARA SC-168885 Date: January 20, 1943. He was killed in action just...
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The cost of keeping Yorktown in business
The Post and Courier has an excellent article on what it costs to keep a large maritime museum with floating relics in operation. Built around USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10), one of 24 Essex-class fleet...
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A mysterious, if soft spoken, Czech
The Germans in WWII were the ultimate locusts when it came to re-purposing captured weapons. Not only did they quickly turn around and put everything they found that went bang in an occupied country to...
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Always worth its weight
From the CIA archives: As an attempt to control currency during the worst days of the Depression Presidential Executive Order 6102 (1933) and the Gold Reserve Act (1934) made owning or trading gold a...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 14, 2016: An everlasting Citrus with very long roots
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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Warhawk in flight (without shark jaws!)
Click to big up View of a Curtiss Warhawk P-40F fighter plane. Label on back: “New Curtiss Warhawk fighter for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Shown in this close-up flight photo is the U.S. Army Air Forces’...
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The brief affair with HBT camo and the U.S. Army, or, the Duck Hunters of D-Day
In the first part of 1943, the Army began flirting with a two-piece (jacket and pants) herringbone twill (HBT) camouflage uniform. Now, one thing to note is that this differed from the Marine HBT “duck...
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A bridge too far, with lots of STEN sticks
In honor of the anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, here is a kit layout for a British Para Lance Corporal from Operation Market Garden in 1944. Can you say STEN mags? Note the one for the gun, seven...
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Earhart’s Last Flight
I’ve always been interested in mysteries of the sea– unexplained ship and aircraft vanishings, etc– and one that has captured the imagination of many over the decades is the enduring riddle that is...
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Dutch Harbor (Battle of Midway era) Tiger on tap for Atlanta
One of the Texas Flying Legend Museum’s enduring fleet of P-40s. Texas Warhawk And she has a great history. From the Commemorative Air Force’s Website: This P-40E is a cold weather survivor coming out...
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20 years of U.S. sniper rifles up close and personal (VIDEOS)
Ian from Forgotten Weapons wraps his scholarly hands around a Marine Corps MC-1952 Sniper Garand, an Army M1C Sniper, and a series of Springfield 1903 sniper rifles for an in-depth look. In the above...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 28, 2016: From the Lingayen to the FloraBama
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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Rangers can still make their Enfields sing
With their vintage .303 No. 4 Lee Enfield rifles being phased out, the part-time soldiers of the Canadian Rangers are standing tall at the Canadian Armed Forces Small Arms Concentration. The military...
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A Gurkha and his most dangerous weapon
Photo via LIFE archives, originally black & white, cleaned up & colourised by Paul Reynolds A Naik (corporal) of either the 7th or 9th Gurkha Rifles, part of the 4th Indian Division of the...
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Warship Wednesday October 12, 2016: The sometimes frosty but always dedicated...
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Warship Wednesday October 19, 2016: Der Zerstörer von Uncle Sam
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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