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USS Tampa flag found
The 240-foot Modoc-class of cutters was conceived for blue water use by the new Post-Great War multi-mission Coast Guard in the 1920s. Capable of carrying three 5-inch guns, a pretty stout armament for...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019: The Russians Aren’t Good at Borrowing Ships
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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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019: The Other Tora of Pearl Harbor
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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P-38 101
I’ve always had a soft spot for P-38s (the guns, not the can openers, as I find the longer P-51 type a much better form of the latter and don’t even get me into the P-38 Lightning) since I was a kid....
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A Handgun That Saw Hell
On 7 December 1941, the Mahan-class destroyer USS Shaw (DD-373) was in the old New Orleans YFD2 drydock at the Pearl Harbor Naval Yard. Soon after the Japanese attack began, she suffered three direct...
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Radar Plot from Station Opana
Radar Plot from Station Opana, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii December 7, 1941. NARA 2600930 On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese bombers staged a surprise attack on U.S. military forces at Pearl Harbor...
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Last Arizona Vet, arriving via Mark V
The ashes of Lauren Bruner, a survivor of the 7 December 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and Oahu, be placed inside the wreckage of the USS Arizona (BB-39) in an interment ceremony at the USS Arizona...
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Continuity in ships’ tradition, across both sides of the Atlantic
This week saw the christening of the new Ford-class carrier, USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) sponsored by no less a person than Caroline B. Kennedy, JFK’s daughter, and the late President’s only living...
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All Quiet in the Ardennes
American engineers emerge from the woods and move out of defensive positions after fighting in the vicinity of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Note the M1 Garand, M1 Carbine and M9 Bazookas, along...
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The Many Different Faces of the Type 14
While bee-bopping around the Guns.com Vault I came across several different Nambu Type 14s and thought the variety was cool. Nambu Type 14 pistols (Photo: Chris Eger) I say different because, when...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Tuesday), Dec. 17, 2019: The Count’s Bones
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Tilting Moo, 75 years ago today
USS Cowpens (CVL-25), “The Mighty Moo,” starboard side flight deck facing aft from the island. Photo was taken around the time Typhoon Cobra hit the Third Fleet on 18 December 1944. Named for the 1781...
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A tough time in the snow, 80 years ago
Finnish soldiers belonging to the “Company of Death.” Summa, 20 December 1939 during the Winter War with the Soviet Union. The covers are Great War-era Austro-German M16/17/18 stahlhelme, some 80,000...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019: A Tough Christmas in the Lingayen Gulf
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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Exorcising the Ghosts of Pearl Harbor (while setting up the next one)
USS OKLAHOMA (BB-37) and USS ARIZONA (BB-39) in better times, side by side in the Pedro Miguel locks of the Panama Canal in January 1921. Ship in distance is USS NEVADA (BB-36). C.F. Rottmann,...
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Who Wants a Deal on a Historic Coast Guard Cutter?
Robert Morris was an Englishman, born in Liverpool in 1734. Coming to the Pennsylvania colony in his teens, by 1775 he was a wealthy merchant and turned his business acumen into buying arms for the...
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Chester’s announcement, 78 years ago today
At the battered harbor just three weeks after the bloody attack that crippled the U.S. battleship force in the Pacific, Adm. Chester William Nimitz, Sr. (USNA 1905), who cut his teeth on cranky early...
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Grouches in the Bulge
Here we see one Major Eberhard Lemor, 39, commander of Sturmpanzer-Abteilung 217, during the Ardennes offensive, some 75 years ago this month. If his trousers look odd, it is because he is wearing a...
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The British Sergeant Major, and his relation to the chain of command
Sergeant Major, Canadian Scotch, in full marching order, Great War period. NARA Photo 165-BO-1027 For the best definition of a BritishSergeant Major, peruse this WWII-era piece from The Union Jack, the...
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Seagulls and Crackerjacks
USS Idaho (BB-42). Ship’s company posed on the after deck and after 14″/50 cal gun turrets, circa 1938. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Vice Admiral Alexander Sharp, USN....
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