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Emerging from the mud
I am on the road this week and too short on time for a proper Warship Wednesday. However, with Memorial Day on the horizon, and the fact this is an 80-year-old shot today, it seems appropriate....
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Contested Logistics: Pacific War
This photograph shows four Vought OS-2 Kingfishers of Scouting Squadron 2 (VS-2) on Bora Bora. A Quonset hut is visible behind the line of trees and camouflage netting. Bora Bora, whose conditions...
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USS Mannert L. Abele, found
The only warship named for CDR Mannert Lincoln “Jim” Abele (USNA 1926), a posthumous Navy Cross-earning submarine skipper who was thought to have bagged three Japanese destroyers in a single day...
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Warship Wednesday, May 31, 2023: USS Fallout
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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Buffalo Drivers
Some 80 years ago today. Finnish Airforce officers, fresh graduates of fighter pilot course, 5th of June 1943, at Vesivehmaa, a village outside of Lahti, with a German shepherd mascot on the wing....
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Bombarding Force ‘C’
Allied warships of Bombarding Force C, which supported the landings in the Omaha Beach area on June 6, 1944. The column is led by USS Texas (Battleship No. 35) (left), still with her 1930s mast...
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Coast Guard Welcomes Back an Old Name, Retires Another
One thing I like about the USCG is that they ditch a lot of the political rhetoric when it comes to cutter naming conventions, and make sure they salute their heroes and storied past vessels. For...
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Triumph, located
British T class submarine HMS Triumph (N18) underway, circa 1940. IWM FL 5477 HM Submarine Triumph (N 18), a Royal Navy T class boat, was ordered from Vickers in 1936 just after Hitler ordered the...
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Diverse firepower
80 years ago this month: British and American Navy Forces in Combined Exercises, June 1943, off Scapa Flow. Shown are two very different battlewagons including the brand new SoDak-class fast...
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Warship Wednesday, June 14, 2023: Shoestring Tin Dragon
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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Big Apple Kingfishers
80 years ago today: Casco Bay, Maine, June 1943, a trio of OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes of Observation Squadron Five (VO-5) aboard the battlewagon USS New York (BB-34) while anchored at Casco Bay,...
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Going for a stroll…
80 years ago today: 20 June 1943. Finnish army training grounds outside of Hyrynsalmi, in the country’s rural and heavily forested Kainuu region of North Karelia. On the move is a domestically-made...
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Warship…err, how about Mud Cat?
On the road this week covering an industry event in Oregon so not enough spare time on hand to do a proper Warship Wednesday. In lieu, and in a salute to all this rain we seem to be getting, how about...
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She deserved better
65 years ago today. The well-traveled Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, ex-USS Enterprise (CVS-6) awaiting disposal at the New York Naval Shipyard on 22 June 1958. She was sold for scrapping ten days...
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Getting back in the game after 3 years in the penalty box
80 years ago today, several French Navy warships that had been interned at Alexandria from June 1940 to June 1943 were rearmed, saluted, and welcomed back to the war. Among these was the cruiser...
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Turkish Tiger Inspectors
Some 80 years ago today: Turkish military observers checking out a brand new PzKpfw VI Ausf. H Tiger tank of the 503rd Heavy Panzer Battalion (s PzAbt 503) outside of Belgorod, Russia, 26 June 1943....
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America’s Hat Gets its SIGs
The Canadian Armed Forces have received its first batch of new 9mm pistols from New Hampshire-based SIG Sauer. The CAF last October announced the planned acquisition of SIG Sauer P320 modular handguns...
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Tornado und der Luftwaffe
Check out this great AP Archives video from 22 June 1977, right at 46 years ago, showing a then very new aircraft: the Panavia Tornado, in West German service. It includes both a test bird in a bright...
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Forgotten Canadians: The WWII Veterans Guard
With news that the Canadian military just this week has finally made progress on replacing their WWII-era Browning Hi-Powers, this 80th-anniversary image seems very relevant: The above shows one...
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Warship Wednesday, June 28, 2023: The Tsar’s Jutland Veteran
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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