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Here’s mud in your eye, 75 years ago today
An American combat engineer sergeant of the 5th Army with coffee and a donut from the Red Cross near Livergnano, Italy, 29 October 1944. Mark Clark’s understrength 5th Army was at the time facing the...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct 30, 2019: Some Dazzle from Rio
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Look who’s dressed up for Halloween
In an effort to commemorate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of the Atlantic next May and the Royal Canadian Navy’s role in that epic U-boat war, the Canadian Admiralty has...
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75 years ago: You can run…
A Japanese Navy Kawanishi H8K2 “Emily” patrol seaplane, #801-77, flies close to the ocean while trying to escape from a PB4Y-1 Liberator patrol bomber (a U.S. Navy B-24s with only minor modifications),...
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Welcome home, Lt. Crotty
Lt. James Crotty as lieutenant junior grade aboard a Coast Guard cutter. Crotty, a 1934 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, served throughout the U.S. including Alaska prior to service in the...
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HMS Urge, found on eternal patrol
HMS Urge, IWM FL 3433 Commissioned 12 December 1940, the British U-class submarine HMS Urge (N 17) served in World War II throughout 1941, seeing extensive action in the Med. Over the course of 20...
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Wild Wind: Terrible War Movie
I like plumbing the depths of Amazon Prime’s streaming videos as they have lots of great old war/military movies free to watch online (e.g. King and Country, Star of Africa, The Court-Martial of Billy...
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Slow Death of the Nachi, 75 years on
One of the Imperial Japanese Navy’s mighty quartet of Myoko-class heavy cruisers, Nachi was a 13,000-ton brawler built at the Kure Naval Arsenal and commissioned in 1928. Carrying five dual twin...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019: Italian Mosquitos of the Baltic
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Reverence, 88 years ago today
You almost get a sense of storm clouds on the horizon here in this beautiful image of a “treaty cruiser,” USS Indianapolis (CA-35) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, 7 November 1931, her launch...
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Chicago Typewriters off Morocco, 77 years ago today
Major General George Patton and Rear Admiral John Hall, US Navy (behind Patton – and, Yes, the Admiral has his helmet on backward) prepare to go ashore at Fedhala, Morocco during the North African...
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Remember, today is not about saving upto 20% on select merchandise
Division Cemetery, Okinawa, 1945, Photo via Marine Corps Archives In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words To us in...
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Grayback discovered
USS GRAYBACK (SS-208) data plaque, photographed in 1941. NHHC 19-N-24245 The Lost 52 Project, which aims to find all of the U.S. Navy’s WWII submarines still on Eternal Patrol, this week announced they...
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Cruiser? Battleship? Something in between maybe
By looking at the profile of the warship below, you would be likely to think it a late-WWII era U.S. heavy cruiser, perhaps of the big 13,000-ton Oregon City-class or maybe even an example of the...
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Busy Days
Find the journal entry of Marine Lloyd Fuller, covering Nov. 15 & 16 1942, below. Fuller enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1941 and, assigned to Marine Fighting Squadron 121 (VMF 121), served as the...
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E&E, Battle of the Atlantic edition
IMA just posted a couple of very interesting WWII U.S. Navy escape and evasion barter kits which were issued to aircrews should they be needed to help them buy their way to freedom in occupied or...
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So I watched Midway…
To be clear, the current Midway movie is at least the third film– counting John Ford’s WWII-era propaganda short and the verbose 1976 Henry Fonda flick– to be centered around the pivotal battle of the...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019: We’ll fight them both
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Bloody Tarawa
As a note, this week is the 76th anniversary of the bloody and hard-fought Battle of Tarawa. Maj. Gen. Julian C. Smith’s 2nd Mar Div– consisting of the 2nd, 8th, 10th, and 18th Marines– hit the Red...
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Dazzling
I get that haze grey and shades of are great visual camouflage at sea these days, but you just have to love these “throwback” North Atlantic camo schemes that the Royal Canadian Navy is using to...
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