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Warship Wednesday Jan 8, 2020: Maru Floatplane Carriers
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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Nick’s Heron
An Italian triple-engine floatplane, a CANT Z. 506B Airone (Italian: Heron) rests on a Sicilian beach (possibly on Mondello beach south of Palermo) guarded by an SMLE-armed British soldier in November...
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A break between Fallschirmjägers and destiny
TEC5 Thomas “Red” O’Brien, C Company, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th (Yankee) Division, getting a quick meal in while parked on a snowbank near Mecher, Luxembourg, 75 years ago yesterday. Photo by TEC5...
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Warship Wednesday Jan 15, 2020: TF38 Running Amok in the South China Sea
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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Bazooka Boy Scout
In this 1960s Army recruiting poster, we see PFC Vernon K. Haught, of the 82nd ABN Divison’s 325th Glider Rgt, around the final act of the Battle of the Bulge in January 1945, as he strolls in the...
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Dorie Miller to be remembered in a new carrier
The (A)SECNAV over the weekend announced that, in honor of MLK Day, USS West Virginia Pearl Harbor hero cook PO3 Dorie Miller will be the namesake of a new Gerald Ford-class carrier, the future CVN-81....
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Copenhagen Joes
The below historical video was recently posted by the Forsvaret, the Royal Danish armed forces. Filmed 1 August 1951, it covers the visit to the country of then five-star Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who...
View ArticleSome mariners are harder to kill than they look
The Australian War Memorial has this great (audio) show, Collected, where they talk about artifacts and the history behind them. The latest episode, below, runs 25 minutes and details the stories...
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Warship Wednesday Jan 22, 2020: Oh, Mr. Volstead, what have you done?
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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Fights On
These great images from MCAS Beaufort, SC, showing a vintage squadron line up around an F4U Corsair, likely in WWII, and a newer image of a squadron with F/A-18 Charlies. The unit in question is Marine...
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Warship Wednesday Jan 29, 2020: The Lion of Goa
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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Dragon’s Roar
“Front view of 240mm howitzer of Battery `B’, 697th Field Artillery Battalion, just before firing into German-held territory. Mignano area, Italy.” SC photo by Boyle, January 30, 1944, some 76 years...
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The 1903 Model Signal ‘Gun’
Submitted for your consideration, a Navy signal outpost on New Caledonia, January 1943. A convoy of sailors en-route to water and supplies, guide their horses over a mountain trail. Note the M1903...
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Warship Wednesday Feb. 5, 2020: Witness to the Sunrise
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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So long, Kirk Douglas
As a kid, I kept seeing the same cleft-chin rugged man’s man in my favorite war movies: Paths of Glory, In Harms Way, Cast a Giant Shadow, Is Paris Burning, Heroes of Telemark, Victory at Entebbe, The...
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BREN, is that you?
Of course, whenever one says the name, BREN, one thinks of the famous Czech-British (Brno-Enfield) light machine gun that served the Allies well during WWII– and the British Army well into the 1980s....
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Jumping on The Rock
Paratroopers of the 503d Parachute Regimental Combat Team landing on Topside, the high ground of Corregidor, NARA. One of the most oft-forgotten U.S. Army combat parachute jumps of all-time was made 75...
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Red Beach at 75
Men of U.S. Marine Corp’s 5th Division advancing through the black volcanic ash hills of Red Beach No. 1 at Iwo Jima, Japan, 19 February 1945. They are inching toward Suribachi Yama as the smoke of the...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020: Hannah on the Beach
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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Buck Rogers Men
One of the more unusual units that hit Green and Red Beaches on Iwo Jima 75 years ago this month were the Marines of the 1st Provisional Rocket Detachment, assigned to the 4th Marine Division, and the...
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