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A tale of two soles
Sometimes, an idea sounds so good that it just won’t go away no matter how bad it is. Below, I give you a pair of overshoes designed for Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents operating in South...
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Louisville on ice
“Fighter and Freighter – Kodiak, Alaska.” Painting, Oil on Board; by William F. Draper; 1942; Framed Dimensions 24H X 28W. NHHC 88-189-B The warship looks to be a Northampton or Pensacola-class heavy...
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Dental call!
“Dental Scene” Painting, Gouache on Paper; by Julian Levi; 1943; Framed Dimensions 22H X 24. Accession #: 88-159-GQ as a Gift of Abbott Laboratories “Waiting seamen look forward to the dental chair...
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Warship Wednesday, March 14, 2018: Always on the edge of history
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...
View ArticleKeeping up the search for the lost, but never forgotten
A recovery team aboard U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command’s USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52) completed an excavation, on Feb. 25, of multiple aircraft losses shot down in 1944 near Ngerekebesang Island,...
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The Anderson ‘Patton’ knives of WWII
Via USMC Museum Via the National Museum of the Marine Corps: In the early days of WWII, supplying the rapidly expanding American military was an extreme challenge. As knives were scarce, an...
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You call that a tank? That’s a tank (or 3)
Via The Tank Museum: A line-up of three generations of Australian tanks. The Matilda in the middle is the oldest. It was first acquired by Australia in 1942 and used against the Japanese in New Guinea...
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Warship Wednesday, March 21, 2018: After 75 years, take a breather
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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75 years ago today: Have a smoke and a smile
A wounded German POW of the 15th Panzergrenadier Division offers a light to one of his captors; a wounded British Army soldier of the 6th Durham Light Infantry, 50th Infantry Division, XXX Corps. March...
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Warship Wednesday, March 28, 2018: Le sabordage!
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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Flying skylight
Interior of the fuselage of Handley Page Halifax B Mark II, JP321 ‘V’, of No. 614 Squadron RAF, showing some of the many holes caused by splinters from an anti-aircraft rocket which hit the aircraft...
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April Fools, South-pacific edition, 75 years ago
Signed by the artist: Jack Fellows. Via NNAM.2004.100.001 On 1 April 1943, during a big fight over the Russells Group in the Central Solomons, a Japanese Navy pilot plays the fool as he loops his...
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‘You are two men in a £15 Folbot…’
Commando officer Capt. Roger ‘Jumbo’ Courtney formed the now famous Special Boat Section (SBS) in 1940. Forerunner of today’s Special Boat Service, the unit used folding kayaks called folboats for...
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If you have a rifle grenade, all things are possible
As illustrated in this Signal Corps image, a pair of servicemen of the 7th Air Force wrapped the line around a cricket bat-esque float, then stuffed it on the end of an M1 rifle grenade launcher device...
View ArticleGiving a WWII ration a try
Steve1989MRE goes to town on the classic Royal Australian Army 24-Hour o2 Ration pack, dated April 1945. Interestingly, it is marked that it can be “buried or submerged” which points to the extensive...
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Whistling up 90K M1 Garands
CAMP AGUINALDO, Philippines – Joint Armed Forces of Philippines and U.S. team conducting M1 Inventory, 2017 The backstory on how six divisions worth of M1 Garands got repatriated from the Phillipines,...
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Fit for a Kingsman
All photos Chris Eger, except where noted The folding clasp knife, aka jackknife, aka pocketknife, aka penknife, aka peasant knife, et. al, in military ancillary use dates back to the Roman Legions as...
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Happy Birthday, Yorktown
First off, this is a Kodachrome original, not a colorized photo. It shows the crew of the brand-new U.S. Navy Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) at attention as the National Ensign is...
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One of the most advanced U-boats ever to take to the sea, located
Ordered in 1943 from F Schichau GmbH, Danzig as werk 1668, German submarine U-3523 was an advanced Type XXI U-boat that wasn’t completed until 23 January 1945– just over two months before Berlin fell....
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Coming home from the desert
Delivery of the remains of Sottocapo Silurista (Chief Torpedoman) Carlo Acefalo, late of the Royal Italian Navy submarine Macalle, to Italian Ambassador Fabrizio Lobasso for their repatriation to Italy...
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