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Liberantus Lardassarus Rex
IMA just posted this awesome USAAF A2 leather flight jacket issued to a Lieutenant G.S. Tate who was a Bombardier in the 15th Air Force, 456th Bombardment Group, 745th Bomb Squadron who’s B-24’s motto...
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Black Dragon in need of some help
From the now 76-year-old Battleship New Jersey (BB-62) Museum in Camden, NJ: New Jersey looking for volunteers… The Battleship is looking for volunteers to help restore more than 40,000 square feet of...
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Despite the best attempts: Armor at Normandy
With the 75th Anniversary of the Overlord (D-Day) landings this week, Saving Private Ryan has a limited re-release in theatres and you know I had to catch it again on the big screen. One underlying...
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With the looming 75th anniversary this week of the more than 22,000 Allied paratroopers and glider-borne light infantry dropping behind German lines in Normandy on the eve of D-Day, I thought this was...
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Warship Wednesday, June 5, 2019: Overlord’s First Loss, now 75 years on
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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D-Day through the brush of a GI who was there, 75 years ago today
D-Day, as seen below in eight, often haunting, paintings from U.S. Army combat artist Mitchell Jamieson, who landed in Normandy on Utah Beach with an M1 Garand and a sketchbook on 6 June before making...
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D-Day at 75: An Epilogue
As The Greatest Generation ages and increasingly drifts from the present and into memory with each passing day, their footprints on those hallowed beaches on Normandy are washed away. With that, I...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: Opening Up the Beach edition
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers...
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Warship Wednesday, June 12, 2019: The End of l’Ancien Régime, Beginning of...
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Quentin Walsh gets a well-deserved nod
A lot of people forget that the U.S. Coast Guard often carries a serious load in American military history, punching way out of their weight class. This had held true from the War of 1812 to the...
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D-Day Plus Seven
Here we see what Normandy looked like a week after Overlord in combat artist and Combat Gallery Sunday alum Dwight Shepler‘s 1944 watercolor, “D-Day Plus Seven, Omaha Beach Head, Landing scene with the...
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Nothing says ‘good morning’ like 5″ batteries, 75 years ago today
This beautiful originial Kodachrome shows the 5″/25cal (127 mm) Mark 10 battery aboard the U.S. Navy battleship USS New Mexico (BB-40) preparing to fire during the bombardment of Saipan, 15 June 1944....
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Oooooh, Barracuda
Designed as a replacement for the downright antique-looking Fairey Swordfish and Fairey Albacore biplane torpedo bombers of the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm, the Fairey Barracuda monoplane was on the...
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Warship Wednesday, June 19, 2019: Coming Full Circle, OTD 104 & 75 Years Ago
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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Filed Under: Other Navy Ships Named for Coasties
With the news earlier this month that SECNAV will be naming one of the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers after the late (great) Capt. Quentin Walsh, USCG, I’ve seen several news sources– both...
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Basic bicycle repair class, Normandy edition, 75 yrs ago today
Canadian Army Pvt. R.O. Potter of The Highland Light Infantry of Canada repairs a flat tire on his bicycle shortly after the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy. France. 20 June 1944. Note the No. 4 Mk I...
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Pearl clutching and AVGPs
Sackville, a Canadian town in New Brunswick, lost 55 of its men during WWII with the Canadian forces fighting in Italy. The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise’s) regiment–the longest-serving armored...
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Warship Wednesday, June 26, 2019: The sub-smoking Greenfish of the Amazon
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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What a difference 75 years makes
Of note, this month is the 75th anniversary of Battle of the Philippine Sea that left three Japanese carriers and 600 irreplaceable pilots and crew of the IJN’s fleet air arm at the bottom of the...
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Warship Wednesday, July 3, 2019: The Frogmen of Balikpapan
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 (or unit) each week. These ships have a...
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