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Warship Wednesday May 13, 2015: The 18,000-ton Boogieman of the Barents Sea
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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The rock and roll Marlin: The M1918 BAR
Today each Army and Marine fire team contains at least one hard charger who is designated the squad automatic weapon man. This position, first conceived back in 1918, was until the disco era composed...
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The secret submarine blockade-runners of the PI
When World War II came to the Philippines on Dec. 8, 1941, the U.S./Philippine forces under Gen. MacArthur (land and air) and the Navy’s Asiatic Fleet under Adm. Thomas C. Hart seemed mighty enough for...
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Warship Wednesday May 20, 2015: The destroyer with the heart of a battleship
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Tom Lea
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. As...
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Warship Wednesday May 27, 2015 The coldest boat in the Russian Navy
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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The two-fingered salute from the one-armed ace
Squadron Leader J.A.F. MacLachlan, the one-armed Commanding Officer of No 1 Squadron RAF, standing beside his all-black Hawker Hurricane Mark IIC night fighter, ‘JX-Q’, at Tangmere in West Sussex,...
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Get some, and then maybe get some tea…
Click to bigum In 1939 France, a British machine-gun team. The gun, which appears to be a Vickers, is mounted on the front of a motorcycle side car. (Image via National Library of Scotland) Note the...
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No.249 Squadron Typhoon
(Hattip Daily Mail) Flying over the green fields of England in World War Two camouflage, two fighter aircraft evoke the brave men who fought and died in the Battle of Britain. One of them, the...
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Enter the Eagle
The Coast Guard Cutter Eagle sails into Norfolk, Va., as part of Norfolk Harborfest 2015. The Eagle is a 295-foot barque sailing vessel and the only operational commissioned sailing vessel in the U.S....
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Ace in a Day Death Rattler is one of the fewest of the few left
One of the last remaining fighter aces from the “Greatest Generation” received the Congressional Gold Medal at age 91 Friday for his actions over Okinawa in World War II. As a 21-year-old Marine...
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Vale, Christopher Lee
You may not known this about me, but I’m named after a film icon. Yup, I am Christopher Lee Eger, after the Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ. You know? Count Dooku, Saruman, The Man with...
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A sleepy deuce on a green island
click to big up A crewman finds the only shade there is on the airstrip on Green Island (now Nissan Island), Northern Solomons, beneath an F4U-1D Corsair fighter, No.974 of Marine Squadron 222,...
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Rodney redux
We’ve covered the Nelson-class battleship HMS Rodney (pennant number 29) in past Warship Wednesdays, and she is a remarkable design. Well armed and armored but slow (just 23 knots) as a result of...
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Warship Wednesday June 17, 2015: Big Paul
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Lady Sara
US Marine Corps Vought O2U-2 Corsair aircraft preparing to land on Saratoga, circa 1930Source United States Navy Naval History and Heritage CommandIdentification Code NH 94899 The USS Saratoga (CV-3)...
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The humble Seagull
SOC Seagull aircraft just launched from USS Augusta’s catapult, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Jun 1942. Note the two bombs carried underwing. In 1933, with aircraft carriers few and far between,...
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Semper Paratus as seen through WWII
During WWII, the Coast Guard bloomed from under 20,000 to more than a quarter million at its height in June 1944. At that time, the service contained 9,874 commissioned officers, 3,291 warrant officers...
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The classic Swiss K31 straight pull rifle
The industrious hard-working people of Switzerland are known for cuckoo clocks, great chocolates, bank accounts on the low low, and high-end watches. What they are also known for are precisely...
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The Maxim via China
Hiram Maxim’s machine gun was the standard that all others were stacked up to in the late 19th and early 20th Century. They were adopted in Germany (Spandau and DWM Maschinengewehr), Russia...
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