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Recovered HMS Hood Ensign Preserved
From the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth: On the eightieth anniversary of the sinking of HMS Hood, the museum has acquired a new acquisition with an association to the ship. The flag...
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Cowboy Guns as Brush Guns for Canadian Guerillas
As part of the general mass panic that came about all along the Pacific coast of North America after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which kicked into overdrive with the follow-on actions of Japanese...
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Scratch One of Donitz’s Sharks
Original caption: Coast Guard Cutter sinks sub. Heaved up from below by the force of a depth charge, the Nazi U-Boat 175 breaks surface as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter SPENCER, guns ablaze, bears down...
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Just Clarence & Chuck putting on their faces for a night out
“Pvt. Clarence C. Ware, 438 W. 15th St., San Pedro, Calif., gives a last-second touch to Pvt. Charles R. Plaudo, 210 N. James, Minneapolis, Minn., make-up patterned after the American Indians....
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Marauders Over the Beach
76 Years Ago this morning. Original caption: One of the many B-26 Martin Marauders of the 9th AF is shown over the coast of France during the early morning giving a cover to the landing craft shown on...
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Huge Batch-o-M1 Carbines Headed to Market
The good news: Midway USA recently just imported a few containerloads of WWII vintage M1 Carbines back from Europe, where they have apparently been in Italian arsenal storage for years. “Per our...
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Cruising the Beach
Allied warships of Bombarding Force ‘C’, which supported the landings in the Omaha Beach area on June 6, 1944, as part of Operation Neptune/Overlord. The picture was taken from the frigate HMS Holmes...
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Makeshift STEN foregrips
No matter what, you just gotta love a STEN. British 6th Para Div on D-Day, note the Denison smocks, Skrimmed helmets, toggle ropes, and a STEN MK V. Introduced in 1944, the MK V was a better-quality,...
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Alabama Picking Up Measure 22, Again
“Big Grey Al” has been a regular feature in Mobile Bay for over 50 years, guarding the entry to Mobile along the Moon Pie City’s Western Shore. Note her distinctive large SK3 radar antenna array near...
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Warship Wednesday, June 9, 2021: First of the Jeep Carriers
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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Happy Flag Day
Official caption: Agana, Guam. Front view of wrecked government house, with the U.S. Flag flying from the shattered flag pole, August 2, 1944. Photographed by Corporal H.H. Clements/USMCR. Keep ’em...
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Farewell, 4th Tanks (as well as its Active Sisters)
U.S. Marines with 4th Tank Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, salute during the 4th Tank Bn. deactivation ceremony on Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve...
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Brushing Up, 77 Years Ago Today
Original Caption: “PFC Rocco Festa, 328 Ft. Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, N.Y., brushes up on his French as he awaits transfer from a personnel carrier to a landing craft. Destination: a Normandy...
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Warship Wednesday, June 16, 2021: Rig for Red
Here at LSOZI, we will take off every Wednesday to look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
View ArticleBig Mamie Delivers on her No. 6 mount
To mark the passage of last Memorial Day two weeks ago, the museum ship USS Massachusetts (BB-59). let one of her 5″/38 DP guns bark a salute. Via Battleship Cove comes this video of the event, in...
View ArticleA Bit Deeper on that British Dug LTV
The news that a group of Brits found a more or less intact LVT-4 Buffalo amtrac buried in the mud circled around the globe twice in the past few weeks. The war surplus LVT was brought in to help stem...
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Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day, gentlemen. Hold your family close today. Pvt. William R. Loop (left) of Binghamton, N.Y., bids farewell to his father, Cpl. Roderick R. Loop, also of Binghamton, who is leaving...
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Eagle Among the Volcanos
USCGC Eagle (WIX 327), “America’s Tall Ship,” arrives in Reykjavik, Iceland, on June 9, 2021. Eagle is currently conducting summer U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet training in at-sea leadership and...
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Benko and The Goon
(U.S. Air Force Number 53334AC). National Archives Identifier 204829567. Official caption: Chengkung, China, copied 8/8/44 308th B.G. The crew of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Goon”. Left to right,...
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Echos of USS Robin
In November 1942, with the U.S. Navy down to just two fleet carriers in the Pacific– Saratoga and Enterprise— the Royal Navy helped out its ally with the loan of the Illustrious-class aircraft carrier...
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