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Echohawk
The 45th Infantry (“Thunderbird”) Division Museum in Oklahoma recently shared a gripping series of combat drawings by Brummett Echohawk. An unofficial war artist, Echohawk was a Pawnee, Kit-Kahaki...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022: Black Sea David and Goliath
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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Chilly Turkey Day, 80 Years Ago
Official caption: “Thanksgiving Day Exercises For Men Of 2nd Service Group in Air Force Engineering Shop At An Airfield Somewhere In Iceland. 26 November 1942.” (U.S. Air Force Number 75406AC) Via...
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Mighty Mansfield
56 Years Ago Today: Sumner-class destroyer USS Mansfield (DD 728) letting rip her 5″/38 DP Naval Guns at water-borne craft off the coast of North Vietnam, north of the demilitarized zone. Photographed...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022: Crescent City Blues
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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Battery X at 80
Via the Army’s Center for Military History and the U.S. Army Women’s Museum: On 5 May 1942, shortly after the United States entered World War II, the War Department formed the Military District of...
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Eagle Charlies Fading, replaced by a hope and a prayer
The 18th Tactical Fighter Wing at Kadena Air Base, Japan, received its first F-15C Eagle on 29 September 1979 with “The Fighting Cocks” of its 67th Tactical Fighter Squadron becoming the first...
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Texan Warming Up
80 Years Ago: A North American SNJ-4 Texan trainer aircraft warms up. The photograph was released on December 5, 1942. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National...
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Snoozing in class
Original Press Photo, dated December 6, 1941, the day before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shows a class of Bluejackets as they train to become part of a water-cooled M2 .50-caliber Browning AAA gun...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec.7, 2022: Pearl Harbor D+365
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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USS Arizona on the way
In probably the best commemoration of the 81st anniversary of the one-sided attack at Pearl Harbor, Electric Boat held a ceremony to lay the keel for the future Virginia-class attack boat USS Arizona...
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Lost flags
Flags captured from the Japanese Type A kō-hyōteki midget submarine HA-19 at Pearl Harbor in the days immediately after the attack on 7 December 1941, one of five luckless vessels whose part in the...
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And Pass the Ammunition
Original caption: “Seaman Barrett C. Benson who was a Methodist minister with two churches at Dalton and LaFayette, Georgia, saw the men of his churches going off to war…Deciding to follow them, he...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022: Getting it Coming & Going
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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Red Arrow at War
80 Years Ago: Papua, New Guinea, December 1942: “Red Arrow at War by Michael Gnatek” via the U.S. Army National Guard Heritage Painting Program. The 32nd Infantry Division, known as the “Red Arrow”...
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Why the ‘Bulge’
A graphic view of why the desperate German Ardennes offensive (Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein) is known more popularly, at least in the U.S., as the “Battle of the Bulge.” The map shows the limit of the...
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Maritime Mystery: Death of a Wooden Shoe
Some 80 years ago today, a warship and her entire crew vanished from the waves and not a single confirmed piece of her has ever been seen since. Constructed in 1941 at Snow Shipyards in Rockland,...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022: A Multinational Effort
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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What a great rack!
24 December 1939, France, likely while pierside in Brest, during the “Phony War” period of WWII: a theatre show by the Comédie-Française is given on Christmas Eve aboard the French aircraft carrier...
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Christmas in Rayon City
Starting 30 November and running through the first week of December 1944, the “Angels” from the 11th Airborne Division made their first combat jump– Operation King II, better known later as “Operation...
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