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Warship Wednesday, April 28, 2021: Kan-do Kangaroo
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday to look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Like the Original, but Worse
In July 1879, the Royal Small Arms Factory at Enfield was ordered to produce a self-extracting revolver to compete against foreign models for an upcoming British Army test. Enfield’s first handgun, it...
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Warship Wednesday, May 5, 2021: De Gaulle’s Pearl
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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France, 1940, in Detail
The French Musée de l’Armée just went live with a really well done online exposition, “Comme en 40…” detailing the effort by the Republic in the early days of WWII. While the Phony War transitioned to...
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Happy 75th Brrrthday, 190th Fighter Squadron
Reformed with the lineage of the WWII 405th Fighter Squadron on 24 May 1946, the 190th Fighter Squadron of the Idaho Air National Guard was organized at Gowen Field, south of Boise. Flying F-51 series...
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Happy Mother’s Day: Blockbuster edition
Bombardiers and bomb technicians of the 7th Army Air Force photographed at Kwajalein in 1944 with a Mother’s day greeting for all the moms back on the homefront. USAAF Photo No. 52453 Note the B-24...
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Let ’em Have It
A great print of a watercolor by James Gardner, “A British Anti-Aircraft Battery in Action,” likely either during or just after the Battle of Britain. Concerning the wartime caption, British gunners...
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Warship Wednesday, May 12, 2021: Linguine with Clam Sauce
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Z Man Loadout
The “Z Special Unit” or “Z Force” detachments, immortalized in the early Sam Neil/Mel Gibson action film Attack Force Z (which included some great suppressed M3 Grease Guns and folbot action from an...
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Back to the Rock
“Dug Out Doug” MacArthur and the “Bataan Gang” returning to Corregidor in March 1945 on, appropriately, a group of four Navy PT-boats. (U.S. Air Force Photo Number 82288AC, NARA 204999579) To his...
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PT Boat’s guns Sting Japanese Tonys
Offical caption, circa December 1943: “Flashing its swift, elusive way through Pacific combat waters, a PT boat turns its guns on a pair of Tonys [Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 Hiens] which suddenly swoop...
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Keeping the Deeds Alive
I’ve always had a staunch, somewhat old school take when it comes to traditional naval ship names. In short, it is hard for a plank owner rushing aboard to bring a new ship to life if it is named...
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Frogman Art
Although lots of people harp on the JFK connection to today’s SEALs, the fact is, they were just an updated rebranding of units that date back to the old UDTs and NCDUs (Naval Combat Demolition Unit)...
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Ghost Army Halfway to Congressional Gold Medal
“Ghost Army” Insignia circa 1944. The U.S. House passed H.R.707, Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Act, on the 19th, sending it to the Senate. The bipartisan (173 Dems, 126 Republicans as...
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USS Mobile Gras
While The Big Easy gets all the attention when it comes to Mardi Gras, it should be pointed out that Mobile, Alabama, home to the Bienville-founded French colony around Fort Conde/Fort Louis going...
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The Most Popular FN Pistol You Never Heard of
To satisfy a military contract for 60,000 modified examples of John Browning’s Model 1910 pistol, stretching that .380 ACP’s standard 3.4-inch barrel an extra inch and bumping up the magazine capacity...
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Col. (Ret.) Ralph Puckett Jr., new to the MOH at age 94
Born 8 December 1926 in Tipton, Georgia, Ralph Puckett Jr. was still at West Point when VE and later VJ Day came, and, when he joined the service as a freshly-minted butter bar in 1949, wanted to be a...
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Comfy Socks and Shorts Combos, with Accessories by Vickers
As the weather is heating up, and I find myself switching increasingly to khaki shorts, hiking socks, and boots, this image seems fitting. Official caption: A battalion of the Manchester Regiment in...
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Remember the Reason Today
Keep in mind today the real reason why the mail doesn’t run, public employees have a three-day weekend, and why your mailbox is full of tasteless fliers. USS Indianapolis (CA-35) commissioning...
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Warship Wednesday, June 2, 2021: Flattop of the Americas
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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