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Before the P-40 was a thing, there was the rare and beautiful Hawk
Via the Fighter Collection Most are familiar with the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk/Kittyhawk, the classic shark-mouthed single-seat fighter of early WWII that flew to eternal fame with the Flying Tigers in...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018: The last of the Royal Navy’s peculiar may bugs
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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Swagger in Indochina
If this isn’t Diên Biên Phu aesthetic, I just don’t know what is. Capt. Bernard Cabiro, commander of the 4th company of 1st BEP (French Foreign Legion) is smoking a Gauloise cigarette and carrying a...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018: Father goose and his guard fish
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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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018: The lost Governor and the 142
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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The great Mel Blanc in “Position Firing” a 1944 USAAF Training Film on aerial gunnery, specifically using M2s from the chilly waist positions of a Flying Fortress. Enjoy.
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018: One of the most unsung Boxers in the ring
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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Halloween is nearing, and some ghosts are real
There are some things that are scarier than witches, goblins, and vampires. “Ghost Trail,” by Kerr Eby; 1944. Drawing, Charcoal, and Pastel on Paper; Framed Dimensions 29H X 46W NHHC Accession...
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Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a .50 cal at your side, kid
In a case study of why a sword is of little use against a .50 caliber BMG, take this Japanese Kai-gunto sword, broken in three pieces in the collection of The Australian War Memorial. The hilt has the...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018: The surprisingly long-lasting ghosts of the...
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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Lighting up the sky on All Saints Day, 75 years ago today
Here we see the Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Columbia (CL-56), her after 6″/47cal gun turrets just absolutely lighting up the sky during a night bombardment of Japanese facilities in the Shortland...
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You know you want one
U.S. Army Air Forces Lockheed P-38L Lightning aircraft ( Serial Number – 44-25734 ) and a ground crew member of the 94th Fighter Squadron 1st Fighter Group, poses in his self-styled auto made from...
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Cole’s bell ‘picked’ and recovered
Here we see the original brass bell from the USS Cole (DD-155), a Wickes-class “four-piper” destroyer laid down in the last year of the Great War, named for Maj. Edward Ball Cole, a Marine killed at...
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Bearing the Torch, 76 years ago today
U.S. troops aboard a landing craft head for the beaches during Operation Torch of the North African Campaign Oran, Algeria. 8 November 1942. Imperial War Museum photo. Hudson, F A (Lt), Royal Navy...
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CMP got 8,000 M1911s. Guess how many order packets they received?
The plan to transfer some of the Army’s stockpile of vintage M1911 pistols to the public via the Civilian Marksmanship Program has been met with a big response. On Tuesday, the federally chartered...
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Excelsior!
Born Stanley Martin Lieber, Stan Lee spent much of his life in the comics industry– with a break for WWII service in the Army– and with fellow artists, co-created legions of iconic characters. Lee grew...
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SBD of Morocco
Yes, a Navy dive bomber on a dirt road in North Africa. It happened. Below we have a U.S. Navy SBD (Scout Bomber, Douglas) Dauntless dive bomber, likely of Carrier Air Group 4’s VS-41 “Tophatters,”...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018: The Quilt City Slugger
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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From the drawing board of a Budapest banker
So I’ve been fooling with a vintage Frommer Stop this week. You do know of Rudolf Frommer, a bespectacled and balding banker who resembled the fictional Ernst Stavro Blofeld and, among other claims to...
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Blowing smoke, 75 years ago today
USS Minneapolis (CA-36) bombarding Butaritari Island, Makin Atoll, on 20 November 1943, shortly before U.S. Army forces landed there. Guns firing are from the cruiser’s starboard side 5″/25-caliber...
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