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RBFM: Never Underestimate Sailors Fighting Ashore
In November 1942, the Brits had around 600 Vichy French Navy POWs in their custody at Grizedale Hall in England. These men had been captured in the assorted brushes around Africa and the Middle East...
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Polish Procession
Good Friday blessings. Roughly 80 years ago. Good Friday procession of Free Polish troops and auxiliaries, likely in Italy, taken April 7th, 1944. All images via the Matson (G. Eric and Edith)...
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White 35, in full Color
Check out this original Kodachrome, taken some 80 years ago today, of LT(JG) George T. Glacken and his gunner, Aviation Radioman Second Class Leo W. Boulanger, in their Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive...
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Koruniat and Ndrilo Island April Fools
USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6) late 1944 with PT boats alongside At the end of March/first of April 1944, some 80 years ago, the fighting motor torpedo boat tender USS Oyster Bay (AGP-6), with the Elco-made...
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Fleeting beauty
Some 80 years ago today, the magnificence of the brand-new Fletcher-class destroyer USS Leutze (DD-481), seen off her birthplace– the Puget Sound Navy Yard– on 2 April 1944. She wears Camouflage...
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Vale, Lou Conter
Born in September 1921 in Ojibwa, Wisconsin, Louis Anthony Conter enlisted in the Navy in November 1939 and, after training at RS San Diego, boarded his first ship– the mighty Pennsylvania-class...
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Warship Wednesday, April 3, 2024: The Bathtub of Sampson, Schley, and Sims
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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Keeping em clean
80 years ago today. 4 April 1944. Official caption, “Sgt. John C. Clark…and S/Sgt. Ford M. Shaw…(left to right) clean their rifles in the Bivouac area alongside the East-West Trail, Bougainville. They...
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Fighting with what you got
How about this shot, some 80 years ago this month, of Soviet Red Partisans during the liberation of the Crimean town of Bakhchysarai, April 1944. Drink in the diversity when it comes to hardware. On...
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Warship Wednesday, April 10, 2024: Mongolia by way of Massachusetts
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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RCAT, is that you?
Via the Cape Cod National Seashore although, as the wreckage seems totally absent of marine growth, I am taking it with a grain of sand: Last week, a man-made object washed up on Marconi Beach. It...
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Welcome, Hannah!
80 years ago today: A great shot of the brand new Essex-class fleet carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) underway in Boston harbor on 15 April 1944, the day of her commissioning from the Fore River Shipyard at...
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The ‘Last’ Yankee Battleship
Some 80 years ago today, the final American battleship laid down whose construction was completed* entered the fleet. The second U.S. Navy warship to be named for the 30th State, USS Wisconsin...
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Warship Wednesday (On a Thursday) April 18, 2024: Return for the Taxpayer
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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Prepping for Pegasus Bridge
Some 80 years ago today. How about this great period color photo of British paratroopers sitting in the fuselage of an aircraft while awaiting their order to jump, on 22 April 1944. Note their...
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Seperated by 9,000 miles: 66 & 77
80 years ago. Two Gator (LST Mk 2) sister ships, built almost side-by-side in the same yard in Indiana (Jeffboat), were hard at work on opposite sides of the globe in two very different campaigns in...
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Speaking of ANZAC
With ANZAC Day upon up– the national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Diggers and Kiwis “who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping...
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Warship Wednesday, April 24, 2024: A Flower So Nice They Painted Her Thrice
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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Steaming in Circles
80 years ago this week, how about this great original color image of the Moore-McCormack company’s American Republics Liner Rio de la Plata, seen in her WWII configuration as the escort carrier USS...
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Folgore(s)!
Some 80 years ago this month: German paratroopers of 1. Fallschirmjäger-Division and Italian para of the Reggimento arditi paracadutisti Folgore, the latter armed with a twin-triggered Beretta MAB...
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