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Italian Fascist Youth Carbine
National Firearms Museum: Here we see a Moschetto Regolomentare Ballila Modelo 1891, second from the top, compared to a full sized M91. These scaled-down Mannlicher-Carcano pattern bolt-action carbines...
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Mighty Mo’s fire room
Via Battleship Missouri Memorial The four fire rooms aboard the Iowa-class fast battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) contain eight Babcock & Wilcox M-Type water tube boilers that operated at 600 pounds...
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Warship Wednesday October 26, 2016: The mighty midget with the most miles on her
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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A .50 cal gunner from the Meat Hound
Right waist gunner Staff Sergeant Frank T. Lusic of Eighth Air Force’s “Meat Hound” a Boeing B-17F-55-BO Flying Fortress (s/n 42-29524) assigned first to the 423th Bomb Sqn, 306th Bomb Group in early...
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Tucked in the Amazon…
“Here Joseph Greiner died of fever on January 2, 1936 in ordinary to the German research work. German Amazonas/Jary River expedition, 1935-1937.” As covered by Atlas Obscura, the 9-foot tall cross...
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WRENing it up, WWII Coastal Forces style
The Women’s Royal Naval Service was formed in the last couple years of the Great War, and grew to some 5,000 auxiliarists by Armistice Day. Shortly afterward, the group was disbanded until Hitler came...
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Canuck Enfields get reprieve from the scrap heap
The WWII vintage .303 No. 4 Lee Enfield rifles used by the part-time soldiers of the Canadian Rangers will be given to their users, converted to drill rifles or released to the public. The more than...
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Want a RN Coastal Forces ML from WWII?
The “Fair B’s” were rushed into production in 1940 using prefab components from shops large and small across the UK to churn out literally hundreds of these 112-foot boats. Armed with a Quick Firing...
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Tamaroa’s final cruise?
This image of the Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa was shot one year before it would sail into the vicious Halloween storm to save lives. USCG Photo courtesy Coast Guard Historian. One of the hardest serving...
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Canada’s long-running and unlikely Sherman obsession
Today the Canadian Army rocks some gently used (mainly former Dutch Army) Leopard 2A4+/2A4M/2A6M main battle tanks but their armored tradition goes way back. In the 1930s, the branch trained with early...
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HMS Simoom found
Turkish wreck-hunter Selcuk Kolay has found what he believes to be the Royal Navy’s long-lost S-class submarine HMS Simoom (P225) about 6 nautical miles north-west of the Turkish Aegean island of...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 9: The hardworking white hull from Beantown
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 Alex Schomburg
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, photographers...
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Bougainville remembered
(Photo: USMC 63280. Colourised by Paul Reynolds. Historic Military Photo Colourisations) Official caption: BOUGAINVILLE OPERATION, November 1943. Cpl William Coffron, USMC, fires at a sniper on Puruata...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 16: Estonia’s national hero, AKA the Soviet’s immortal...
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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Stormes at sea, 68 years ago today
USS Stormes (DD-780) coming alongside USS Leyte (CV-32) for refueling during Operation Frigid, 17 November 1948. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 23, 2016: A long overdue Salute
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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Devil Dogs, indeed
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog #: NH 104294 Iwo Jima Operation, 1945. (Quoted from the original photo caption released on...
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Smoke em if you got em
Australian National Maritime Museum Object number 00049309 Bill Ettershank (owner/skipper) of the KEWARRA, lights one up while out looking for anything unusual in WWII as part of the Australian...
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Any excuse to go hunting
Note the Enfield M1917 in 30.06– still a great hunting rifle today. From Fort Wainwright’s PAO: On June 16, 1941, Lieutenant Milton Ashkins and his crew chief Sargent R.A. Roberts took off from Ladd...
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