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Warship Wednesday June 24, 2015: The hard times of a peacetime tin can
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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Shirley Jane and the Buzz Bombs
Here we see Captain Edwin O Fisher of the 377th FS/362nd FG, 9th AF, somewhere in liberated France (possibly Rennes-St. Jacques Airfield) in the fall of 1944. He plane is a Republic P-47D-27-RE...
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The Orange Beach Bomber
One of the last airworthy PBY Catalinas in the world was beached in shallow water behind an iconic roadside bar on the Florida-Alabama line last week. The giant Consolidated PBY Catalina, with its...
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Warship Wednesday July 8, 2015: Colombia’s Grande Dame, with a bit of British...
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German Heer called in to evac random Panther tank, flak gun, torpedo found in...
Officials in Germany called out the military last week to assist in recovering a cache of WWII-era armament that included a Panther tank and an 88mm flak gun. Seized from a villa in the small town of...
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36 More Tarawa Marines coming home
The Battle of Tarawa (US code name Operation Galvanic) was one of the bloodiest of the Pacific T/O during WWII. Nearly 6,400 Japanese, Koreans, and Americans died in the fighting, mostly on and around...
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Never doubt the power of the stache
Robin Olds, a triple ace with 16 confirmed kills, four in Vietnam and 12 in the European Theater of WWII. Seen here at the controls of his F4 Phantom, 1966. The rakish gentleman with the Tom Selleck...
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“Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war”
While, yes, it may be a phrase from Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and was likely written sometime around 1599, both Caesar’s army and those of Shakespeare’s own time,...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: We have the Mort, Part VI
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. Combat...
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Photos from raider Kormoran and HMAS Sydney
The German raider SMS Kormoran (HSK-8) and the light cruiser HMAS Sydney (D48) were re-discovered in 2008 with an expedition to the wrecks going out earlier this year. The two locked horns in an epic...
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Of British officers and top break revolvers
The Webley and Enfield series of top-break .455 and .38/200 wheelguns were the standard issue British officer’s kit from the 1880s through the early 1960s when they were finally replaced by the...
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Breakdown of aircrews for the Battle of Britain
The RAF Benevolent Fund put out this rather interesting infographic commemorating the Battle of Britain’s 75th Anniversary. It seems the campaign was rather symbolic of the World War itself. Less than...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Tom W. Freeman
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. Combat...
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Far flung island outpost
On July 21st, 1944, American forces began their assault on the island of Guam against the heavily entrenched Japanese. It would take 20 days of intense fighting for the Americans to reclaim the...
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Warship Wednesday July 22, 2015: The (Giant) Messenger God
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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I’ve been working on the railroad…
aa One of a handful of Panzer III “rail-cruisers” constructed with the intention of anti-partisan operations. The rail- wheels could be lifted up to allow normal off-rail operations using its treads,...
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Of mustaches and PPSh-41s
Click to big up 1133×1705 Portrait of Soviet Guards Sgt. Alexey G. Frolchenko, late of the 325th “Dvina” Rifle Division, carrying his PPSh-41 submachine gun. I say late because the 325th, formed in...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Walter Baumhofer
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. Combat...
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36 Marines finally make it home after 72 years
A 3rd Marine Regiment color guard takes its place, July 25, 2015, during a repatriation ceremony in Tarawa, Kiribati. The ceremony honored the remains of approximately 36 Marines who fought and died...
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Warship Wednesday, July 29, 2015: The saddest story of World War II– 70 years...
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