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New USS Arizona Memorial Dedicated at University of Arizona
Photo Credit Aengus Anderson A new memorial to the sunken battleship the USS Arizona was unveiled on Sunday, three days before the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that propelled the...
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From the oldest Pearl Harbor survivor– a minesweeper man
Navy Seaman Raymond Chavez is now 104 years old but he remembers one of the first sightings of a Japanese midget submarine hours before the attack and racing back to his ship once the fight was on....
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Is that an RPD you have there, tovarish? Da…
As he walks the earth scoping out NFA items to gel with, Machine Gun Mike came across the classic Cold War RPD and gives you the detailed break down. Soviet firearms wonk Vasily Degtyaryov developed...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 7, 2016: The eclipsing old bird of Battleship Row
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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Picking up the pieces after the Infamy
Too often we forget that the biggest part of the battle at Pearl Harbor came after the Japanese were sailing away. By 0915 on 7 December, Navy divers and salvage teams were hard at work. Throughout...
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Vestal was also there, now anew
At the Pentagon on December 7, 2016, the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, an old warrior was wheeled in to the auditorium, and honored for the first time since the 1950s. The 14,000-ton...
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Good old Sinterklaas, then and now
Photo by Royal Air Force official photographer Clark N S (P/O) via IWM CL 1729, Colorised by Pink Santa Claus (Leading Aircraftman Fred Fazan from London) hands out presents to Dutch children at...
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The ‘new’ Inland looks to bring back the ‘old’ T3 .30 Caliber Carbine
Ohio-based Inland Manufacturing team has reached back into the history books for a rare scoped version of the classic M1 Carbine of World War II. Founded in 2013, Inland has been making a series of...
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Vale, Bismarck slayer
Jock visiting the RN Historic Flight in 2008 to get re-acquainted with the Swordfish, the obsolete “flying stringbag” that proved so useful against both the Bismarck and at Taranto. Swordfish pilot Lt...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday!): The dazzling President of the Royal Navy
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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Old school master key
Here we see a 12 gauge Winchester Model 1897 shotgun as modified for military service then subsequently whittled down sometime later. This pump-action smoothbore was reportedly utilized by a Florida...
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A PT break
Bristling with 20mm and 37mm cannon, .50 cal machine guns and torpedoes, the 80~ foot long plywood wonders that were WWII mosquito boats were pound for pound one of the stoutest warships ever to serve...
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The ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ at work
During World War II the Allies dropped literally tons of arms and munitions to local resistance forces across occupied Europe to give the Germans a little heartburn. Allied aircraft delivered over...
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Lighting it up
Here we see a U.S. Army Anti-aircraft gun battery at, Fort Shafter, Hawaii in 1925 practicing with their then-standard 3-inch M1918 guns (76.2 mm L/40), which was actually based on the old M898 3″/23...
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Welcome to Bizerte
Artist unknown. From Library of Congress. LC-USW33-054104-ZC. Click to big up Night raid on the Allied-occupied French North African port of Bizerte, Tunisia. “LCIs put up a screen of anti-aircraft...
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The humble plinker vs. invading Germans
With most of the heavy equipment of the British Army left on the beaches of Dunkirk in June 1940 and a German invasion of the Home Islands likely, the Home Guard was set up and creatively armed with...
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Warship Wednesday January 4, 2017: There is no longer an Escape
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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Britannia’s version of the ‘quad 50’
The U.S. land-based concept of WWII. The M45C mount, fully equipped with 800 rounds of ammunition, armor shield for the gunner, oil, fuel for the engine, and all accessories was 2400-pounds. The Brits...
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And you think you are cold…
On this day 72 years ago: Vickers machine gun crew of ‘A’ Company, 2nd Middlesex Regiment, 3rd Division at Grubbenvorst, Holland, 13 January 1945. Note the complex sight and traversing mount for...
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Museum ships don’t age well
Constructed of steel by the lowest bidder, warships have a finite lifespan, especially when semi-preserved as museum ships. In Florida, Palm Beach County Commissioners voted to use $1 million in funds...
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