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Hunter Killers!
Below is a great 1967 film featuring Grumman S-2E Trackers of Sea Control Squadron Twenty Four (VS-24) Scouts and VS-27 Pelicans and Sikorsky SH-3A Sea King helos of HS-3 Tridents from Carrier...
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Principles of Operation (1943) United States Rifle, Caliber .30, M1
The above U.S. Army training film explains the principles of operation of the M1 (Garand) Infantry Rifle. John Garand’s M1 rifle was developed at Springfield Armory over a five-year period and put...
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You never know what is in those Danish cookie tins
When I was a little kid, my Nana, who hailed from Central Europe and never really gave up the accent among other things, used to have a love of Danish cookies. The kind that come in the little tin....
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NATO drops Wolverines video
The above video is pretty interesting if you know the history of the guerrilla war in the Baltic states that was fought by as many as 50,000 Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian partisans against the Red...
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OPSEC
Note the ship’s name has been redacted. You can never be too careful. 80-G-54637 Photograph released October 19, 1943. U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. “USS Harris...
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Girded for war
U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-10695, now in the collections of the National Archives. “USS Memphis (CL 13), Fire-Control Gun-Captain, Boatswain’s Mate Second Class is preparing to fire a charge. The belt...
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Big J gets one of her lost 40mm mounts back
“USS New Jersey in Vietnam” Painting, Tempera on Paper; by John Charles Roach; 1969; NHHC Accession #: 88-197-CE Launched in 1942, New Jersey (BB-62) saw service in WWII and Korea before being...
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Looking for an Invader?
This bad boy popped up on eBay, listed as an On Mark Marksman Douglas A-26, with On Mark being a post-war pressurized cabin “business transport” modification to the classic Invader attack plane/bomber....
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Warship Wednesday, July 19, 2017: The Belgian sword master and his legacy
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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Air Superiority, 1945 meets 2017
Official caption: To celebrate 70 years of air dominance, the United States Air Force showcased an array of aircraft at the 2017 Royal International Air Tattoo, July 16, 2017, at RAF Fairford, United...
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The mosquito boats at Midway
While the huge carrier task forces get all the attention at Midway, there was also an unsung fleet of plywood boats who took part in the battle as well. As part of the local defenses at Midway were 11...
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When you visit just 1 museum ship, you visit many
Floating museum ships around the world take to searching for missing parts and items from their vessel as they often received the ship after decades in mothballs where they were cannibalized to keep...
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A Lil Jeep and a lot of swagger
Capt. Forrest F “Pappy” Parham in front of the famous shark teeth of Little Jeep, a P-40 Warhawk when a member of “Chennault’s Sharks” the 23rd Fighter Group in the China-Burma-India theater of WWII....
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Russians find an old G-5
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation announced they have discovered and identified torpedo boat AKA-76 in the Black Sea off Cape Panagia. The G-5 (Г-5) type boat was sunk 17 November 1943...
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Warship Wednesday, July 26, 2017: Doctor Jekyll and HM’s gunboat
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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Remember, blue does not mean inert…
So a guy in Massachusetts got to looking at his grandpa’s old military souvenir, which everyone just took to be a keepsake. Then he noted the bomblet had a charge inside. From the video, the device...
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The roaring 20s on Sugar boats at Olongapo
“Submarines at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines” U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 51830 Description: Crewmen posing with a 4/50 deck gun on board a S-Type submarine,...
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That time the U.S. Navy sent a wolfpack to hunt a wolfpack
Here we see the painting “SubRon50: The Jerry Hunters” by Dwight Clark Shepler. Painted in 1943, it shows three of seven “boats” of the U.S. Submarine Squadron 50 alongside the elderly USS Beaver...
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The story of how Remington helped win the air war
On the skeet range at N.A.S. Saint Louis, Missouri, 29 April 1944. Gunner is Lieutenant Junior Grade Rothschild, instructed by Martin. Shotgun is a Remington Model 11, 12 gauge semiautomatic, on a...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug 2, 2017: Uncle’s only submersible aircraft carrier
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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