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Happy solstice– now light em up!
In honor of the longest day of the year, here is a pair of warships all aglow. Below is the Royal Norwegian Navy jager (destroyer) KNM Oslo, seen from the starboard side all ablaze, around 1953....
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The folly that was Maginot, 78 years on.
Built over two decades at the expense of huge portions of the French defense budget, the brainchild of French Minister of War André Maginot– some 5,000 interconnected concrete and steel blockhouses...
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Of Dad’s Army and donated bangsticks
With the release of the latest Small Arms Survey data that puts most firearms (8.4 out of 10) in the hands of civilians worldwide, I thought the below artifacts from the Imperial War Museum would be...
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Does it get any more Rommel and Monty?
British soldiers inspecting a captured German Sd.Kfz 222 armoured car, 24 June 1941, some 77 years ago today. IWM Collections Photo Number E 3776 color by Monochrome Spectre.
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The search for Burma’s lost heroes
Burma: The Arakan Campaign January 1943 – May 1945: A soldier at a camouflaged position in the Arakan jungle. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205194218...
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Warship Wednesday, June 27, 2018: The unsung turbo-electric wonder boat
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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Firing back, 75 years ago today
Nothing could scream “The Battle of the Atlantic” quite like this image, now some three-quarters of a century old. While during a WWII-North Atlantic Convoy, USS Greer (DD-145)‘s gun crew on the after...
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Warship Wednesday, July 4, 2018: Remembering the Independence most often...
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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The GPF of Gulf Shores
Here we see a U.S. Model 1918M1 155mm gun, the famous French GPF (Canon de 155mm Grande Puissance Filloux, a direct copy of the C modèle 1917 Schneider) of the Great War, which equipped U.S. forces...
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Some peculiar Englishmen, their hound, and their umbrella, 74 years ago today
Part of the five-man crew of a MkI Staghound armored car “Frascati” of 1st King’s Dragoon Guards shelter from the sun and take a brew-up beneath a parasol fitted to the turret of their vehicle,...
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SoDaks representing, 73 years ago today
Artwork by John Hamilton from his publication, “War at Sea.” Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Gallery: 89-20-Z: U.S. Navy battleships firing guns on the Japanese mainland, July 1945. “Believed to detail...
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Attack Force Z boat saved, for now
HDML 1321 in her prime. HDML 1321, AKA the MV Rushcutter, was a historic motor launch of the Royal Australian Navy that was used to ferry Z Special Force commandos behind Japanese lines in the...
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SOE made interesting for a new generation
As a fan of military history (please stop me from buying old books in bulk, it is a sickness) I have always had a soft spot for the SOE and OSS operations in WWII. Having met a few veterans of those...
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Of watercooled Brownings, obsolete landing guns and horse Marines
Marine Corps Photo #530953 entitled “Ready for Anything–Maneuvers outside of Peking” showing some well-outfitted Devil Dogs clad in overseas winter gear to include fur caps readying a Browning M1917...
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Going back to Guam, 74 years ago today
5 August 1944. “Home Again” – Col. Merlin F. Schneider (kneeling, left), Commanding Officer of the Marine unit that recaptured the Marine Barracks on Orote Peninsula, Guam, holds the plaque that was...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018: Giuseppe, how many seaplanes you packing?
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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Senta a pua!
At first glance, this flyboy looks like he came standard issue in the U.S. Army Air Force’s 8th Air Force in the European Theatre of Operations in 1944. Then you notice the strange nose art motto on...
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Ghosts of the Emperor’s Army
While doing work on the campus of an elementary school outside of Tokyo, crews performing drilling work started running into the items at a depth of 3-7 feet. Stuff like this: A Lil Ballistol will fix...
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The story of the Millionth Garand
Canadian-born firearms engineer Jean Cantius Garand went to work at the U.S. Army’s Springfield Armory in 1919 and age 29 and remained on the job until he retired in 1953. While he had a hand in a...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018: Florida’s ancient sub-buster
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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