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Warship Wednesday, May 1, 2024: A Wandering Dutchman
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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D-Day Typhoons: 80 Years Apart
Among the thousands of Allied aircraft filling the skies over Normandy for Operation Overlord in June 1944 were four RAF Typhoon Squadrons (Nos. 193,197, 257, and 266) flying out of Needs Oar Point...
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Indirect Fire Support, Direct from Anzio
How about this great series of period photos, all captured 80 years ago today by the same British Army shutterbug, showing 46th (Liverpool Welsh) Royal Tank Regiment tracks in use in the indirect...
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Pom-poms, Sammies, and Cocoa!
Just a Saturday morning in the Norwegian Sea, some 80 years ago today: Crew members of the British carrier HMS Furious have an early breakfast of ham sandwiches and hot cocoa around an eight-barrel...
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Warship Wednesday, May 8, 2024: Surigao Torpedo Slinger and Overall Slugger
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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Aeronautique navale at Dien Bien Phu
Some 70 years ago this week, the pivotal 1954 Battle of Diên Biên Phu ended after a 57-day siege, an event that set the stage for the French withdrawal from Indochina and the American entrance into...
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Happy Mother’s Day from Kwajalein
Here we see a group of hardy USAAF men clustered in front of B-24J-1-CO Liberator Come Closer (S/N 42-72973) of the 38th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), 30th Bomb Group, 7th Air Force, sending Mother’s...
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Warship Wednesday, May 15, 2024: The Great Grey Raider
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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London Irish at Cassino
80 years ago today. Official caption: 17 May 1944. “Italy, Fighting around Cassino. A 17-pounder anti-tank gun with part of its protection troop entrenched under the barrel. The men are left to right,...
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Old Crow Flies Onward
The last American “Triple Ace,” Brig. Gen Clarence Emil “Bud” Anderson passed away yesterday at the ripe old age of 102. Born in Oakland in 1922, he enlisted as an aviation cadet with the USAAF right...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) May 23, 2024: Taking One’s Place for Overlord
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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Just a ciggy break and a Schmeisser
80 Years Ago today. 24 May 1944. Here we see an S&W Victory .38 revolver-armed and cigarette-equipped LT W. Smith, along with platoon Sergeant F.G. White, armed with a captured German MP40 SMG–...
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Mossberg Plinking
80 years ago today, Rosyth, Scotland, 25 May 1944: “Leading WREN Bertha Brokliss, of London and WREN Mary Baptiste, of St Annes-on-Sea, Lancashire, being instructed in firing .22 rifles by Chief...
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Remember to remember today
Official caption: “Memorial Day services held at Asan Cemetery, Guam, Mariana Islands. Note a Marine standing vigilantly over the graves of his fallen comrades.” Photographed by Photographer’s Mate...
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Wreck of ‘Hit em Harder’ confirmed
One of the 52 WWII American submarines considered on Eternal Patrol, the resting place of the Gato-class fleet boat USS Harder (SS 257), which received six battle stars for her wartime service, has...
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Yippee!
Some 80 years ago this month, May 1944, we see a great period Kodachrome of Lockheed P-38J-20-LO SN 44-23296, carrying a special vermillion red paint scheme and the moniker “Yippee” as she was the...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) May 29, 2024: The Blue Beauty of Sevastopol
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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Hollywood quiet?
With the recent Henry Cavill Commando movie in mind, in which assorted STEN MK IIS got a lot of screen time, I thought this recently released Squire video was humorous and hit a “my thoughts exactly”...
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Just Another Campaign
80 years ago this week: An M4 Sherman Duplex Drive medium tank of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own), 27th Armoured Brigade, reverses aboard an LST (Landing Ship Tank) at the Hardway,...
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The Strangest Combat Tug in Seattle
The Sotoyomo-class fleet tug moored at 6716 East Side Dr NE #1-526, with a view of Seattle’s Space Needle, has had an identity conflict over the years. Built at Gulfport Boiler and Welding Works, Port...
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