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Avengers Inbound
80 years ago today: Formation of at least 17 early Grumman TBF-1 Avenger aircraft in flight over Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, and Aoba Island, Tuesday, 5 October 1943. Note that one plane, White 124,...
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70 Year Throwback: Operation Seagull
October 1953, French Indochina. A locally recruited paratrooper of 2e Bataillon du 1e Régiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes (2/1er RCP) posted in observation and firing position, on the edge of Phu Nho...
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The Mighty Miss headed West
80 years ago today. The much-modified New Mexico-class super-dreadnought USS Mississippi (Battleship No. 41), port view, 45 degrees of centerline while off San Francisco, California, 8 October 1943...
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Take me out to the ballgame
With the 1943 World Series some 80 years in the rearview this week, one famed offshoot of that 5-game near-blowout by the Yankees over the Cards comes to mind. The aviators of the newly-formed Marine...
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Le Char Chaffee
U.S. Light Tank, M24 entered production in 1943 with Cadillac and Massey-Harris with the tractor firm making 1,139 at its Racine, Wisconsin facility (a former Nash-Kelvinator plant!) and another 3,592...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023: Sink Em All
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 Difference a Year Makes
Laid down at Newport News on the 1st anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1942, CV-13 officially earned her name some 80 years ago today on 14 October 1943. The future USS Franklin...
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Volturno Crossing
80 years ago today: A U.S.-supplied M4 Sherman medium tank of 4th County of London Yeomanry (4CLY) making ready to cross the Volturno river at Grazzanise, Italy, 17 October 1943 to take on the German...
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Mosquitos!
80 years ago today: PT boat No. 285 underway, 19 October 1943. Note the extensive camouflage paint scheme on the 78-foot Higgins Motor Torpedo Boat, her SO type radar set, four lightweight Mark 13...
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Wetterstation Kurt
80 years ago today, the only (known) World War II military installation conducted by Germany in North America was erected. On 22 October 1943, the Type IXC/40 submarine U-537 (Kptlt. Peter Schrewe) of...
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Echoes from 1940
The MAREANO project, conducted by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU), and the Norwegian Mapping Authority, has been mapping the seascape of the Norwegian...
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Catch this!
80 years ago today: Canadian soldiers of The Carleton and York Regiment preparing to lob a Mills bomb hand grenade into a sniper’s hideout, Campochiaro, Italy, 23 October 1943. Photo by Alexander...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023: The Busy Bee
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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Black Dragon warming up
80 years ago today: The brand-new Iowa-class fast battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) silhouetted against the sea and clouds, as seen from a minesweeper, 26 October 1943. She was then engaged in...
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Big O, and One Wild Airwing
70 years ago, the newly completed improved Essex-class attack carrier USS Oriskany (CVA-34) at Sasebo, Japan, on 27 October 1953. The Iowa class battlewagon USS Wisconsin (BB-64), fresh off her Korean...
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Lt. Schneider, of New Guinea, I presume?
Somewhere in New Guinea, 1943. Official caption: “Displaying all the traits of a true air ace, Second Lieutenant Edwin A. Schneider of Passaic, N.J., shot down three of 23 Japanese aircraft destroyed...
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Triple bruisers
80 years ago today: A trio of rather different U.S. Navy heavy cruisers: (listed from left to right) the sisters USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) and USS Pensacola (CA-24), along with the lead shp of her...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023: Mad Marcus
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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Assam Draggin Getting Ready for a ‘Thousand Pounder’ Raid
“White 4” P-40K Warhawk “Konkubine” of the 25th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, getting prepped for a mission with a 1,000-pound centerline bomb, ca 1943. From left to right; Private Anthony...
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Lady Lex Pow Wow
Some 80 years ago this month, aboard the Essex-class fleet carrier USS Lexington (CV-16) in the Pacific: A great period Kodachrome of The “Fighting Airedales” of Fighting Squadron Sixteen (VF-16)’s...
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