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Mardet White-Glove
80 Years Ago Today. Aboard the Iowa-class fast super dreadnought USS New Jersey (BB-62). Official caption: “Looking over a Marine’s pack, during an inspection, 5 September 1943. Officers include...
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The last of the Class of ’40…
Two great republics lost their final cadets from the “Class of 1940” in the past few days. BG Paul D. Phillips Born on March 9, 1918, Brigadier General Paul Phillips (USMA 1940), a red stripe from...
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Operation Alamo at 80
Markham Valley, Nadzab Airfield, near Lae, New Guinea: An Australian Digger and a U.S. Army Paratrooper link up on 6 September 1943. The day before, the paratroops had taken the valley in a surprise...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023: Mud Hen Regulus Pitcher
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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Of the Tugs Navajo
The name “Navajo,” referencing the Diné people, has been used by the U.S. Navy six times, five of these for hard-working and unsung tugs who, going beyond the title, typically served as rescue and...
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Brit Bent Wings over Brunswick
80 Years Ago: Early Vought “Corsair Mk I” fighters, of the British Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm fly in formation, during training for their pilots in the United States, September 1943. Planes are...
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Down Courageous
A stirring depiction of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier, HMS Courageous (50), after being torpedoed by German submarine KMS U-29 under Kptlt. Otto Schuhart, on 17 September 1939, some 84 years ago...
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C-130J Invasion Stripes
Invasion stripes on C-47 SN 43-30652, circa September 1944, of the 36th Troop Carrier Squadron during Operation Market Garden First off: Happy 76th Birthday, USAF. Now, the news. A half-dozen advanced...
View ArticleA Haunting Look at the USS Yorktown and IJN Akagi
E/V Nautilus, in a 27-day expedition funded by NOAA Ocean Exploration via the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, in conjunction with a whole alphabet soup of other agencies and institutes (U.S....
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday), Sept. 21, 2023: The Ajaccio Express
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View ArticleBy my calculations, gentlemen, there should still be a pint of strawberries...
Herman Wouk’s Pultizer-prize-winning novel and subsequent two-act play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, is one of the best of either ever set on a U.S. Navy destroyer. If it had a remarkably true ring...
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Grendel in its Cave, 80 Years Ago
Here we see the Kriegsmarine battleship Tirpitz at Kåfjord in German-occupied Norway, in September 1943. Note the triple torpedo nets surrounding the beast and the flotilla of attending patrol and...
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Happy First Day of Fall!
With the Autumnal equinox falling on the 23rd rather than the 22nd this year, you are already a day behind, gents. Time to make sure the batteries in your smoke detectors/ NODs/red dots are changed...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023: Of Shorts & Hard Charging Jeep Carriers
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Puncho & Fifi
Official caption: “Royal Marine J Crompton of Wigan, Lancashire, attached to the British East Indies Fleet, with Puncho, the Alsatian mascot of the Marine camp, attempt to camouflage themselves.”...
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Cobra Color Four-Pack
How about this great period Kodachrome of a quartet of USAAF P-39 Airacobras flying over Dale Mabry Army Air Field in Tallahassee, Florida, likely in mid-late 1942. Signal Corps Photo in the National...
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Pollywogs on watch
75 Years ago today: Pith helmet-clad junior officer Pollywogs stand watch atop 6″/47 cal gun turret Number Two of the Fargo-class light cruiser USS Huntington (CL-107), during the Crossing the Line...
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Backpacking through Italy, with a PIAT
80 years ago today: Canadian Army Corporal Earl Harold Pruner, 19, of The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment, carries both a PIAT anti-tank weapon and an M1 Thompson sub-machine gun through war-torn...
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Go loud, boys
80 years ago today: Testing 40 mm anti-aircraft guns onboard PCU USS Manila Bay (CVE 61) off the Pacific Northwest between Vancouver and Astoria, 3 October 1943. Note the jackets and overcoats of the...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023: Shipping Green
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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