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Spelunking, occupation edition
75 years ago today. Official caption: “Japanese Kairyu Type Midget submarine outside its cave hideaway in a Japanese coastal hillside, 22 September 1945.” The men alongside it are from the...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020: Of Stars and Moonstone
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020: Avalanche, Darby, Husky & Fritz
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Za Zdarovje!
Happy National Vodka Day! Official caption: Victory in the West: Royal Engineer Sapper Griffiths of Bootle, Lancaster, celebrating the link-up of British and Russian forces by having a drink with a...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020: U-Boat Hat Trick
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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“He’s as bad as the worst and as good as the best of us”
The Treasury-class United States Coast Guard Cutter George W. Campbell (WPG/AGC/WHEC-32) was 327-feet of rock and roll. Entering service on the eve of WWII, she spent the conflict first on the razor...
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Crimean Cobra floated
Meanwhile, in Crimea’s Kalamata Bay, a joint effort between the Russian Geographic Society and Russian Ministry of Defence has retrieved a gently-used Bell P-39 Airacobra from the bottom of the Black...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020: The Empire Strikes Back
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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The Big E, at the end of an era, 75 years ago today
Here we see a Kodachrome of the sole surviving Yorktown-class carrier to make it out of WWII, USS Enterprise (CV-6), being pushed by tugboats, New York, 17 October 1945. The 7th U.S. Navy ship to bear...
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Big Water Flattop
Continuing in the same vein of pre-WWII American carriers that made it to the post-war (see yesterday’s post on Enterprise), flashing back some 75 years ago today, I give you the USS Ranger CV-4 in...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020: The Kaiser’s Gorgon
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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The Emperor’s Magic Carpet Ride, 75 Years Ago Today
Rare postwar photo of SB2C Helldiver #43, carrying an AN/APS-4 radar pod under the wing, over kite-shaped Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 23 October 1945. The dive bomber is flown by Lt....
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Formosa becomes Taiwan, again, 75 Years Ago Today
Chinese Nationalist Army (Kuomintang) Gen. Chen Yi, right, accepts the surrender of disarmed Japanese Gen. Rikichi Andō, the garrison commander and governor-general of Formosa, in compliance with...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020: Horse Trading and Gun Running
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Attention Gun lovers
For those who love beautiful and rare firearms, RIAC has some amazing offerings on their upcoming December Premier Auction. They include a no serial number Singer Manufacturing Company M1911A1. The...
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Sara & Co stop by Rabaul
Some 77 years ago today: Aerial of USS Saratoga (CV 3) en-route to Rabaul Island, November 1943. Photographed by Lieutenant Wayne Miller, TR-8221. 80-G-470815 On 1 November 1943, the 3rd Marine...
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75 Years Ago: Wake Island Fireball
Today in 1945, just weeks after the end of WWII, the world entered a new phase of naval aviation when a Ryan FR-1 Fireball fighter (accidentally) made a landing on an aircraft carrier under jet power...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020: Spaghetti & Stringbags
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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The Saga of Russian Broomhandles
Just $25 fully outfitted! Deal! Designed by the Feederle brothers in conjunction with Paul Mauser, over a million DWM Construktion 96 autoloading pistols– in addition to their M712 Schnellfeuer...
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Trouble for the final River
The British completed 151 River-class frigates for a host of Commonwealth and Allied navies during WWII, and the vessels went to serve at least 19 different fleets around the globe. Of those, HMAS...
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