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Navy Revisiting Heritage and Tradition this week
Two ship commissionings in the news show some decent salutes to those who have sailed into history in days prior. In New York on Saturday– one day shy of the USMC’s 249th birthday– the Navy...
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Second-Hand Hi-Power
80 years ago this week. Original wartime caption passed as censored: “Moostdijk, Netherlands, 11 November 1944. Sgt. Laughlin, of Motherwell, is the section leader of the advance section of the Royal...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 13, 2024: One Busy Bug
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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Listen to the ‘Old Man’
Official wartime caption: “Lining up for their first target practice. Revolver practice. 1940, naval ratings receiving revolver instruction. They are under the guidance of commissioned gunner, F.E....
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Konspiracja
Some 85 years ago this week, one of the largest– and simultaneously least supported by the Allies– underground resistance armies in WWII took its first key organizational steps. The Polish military...
View ArticleGive it up to the AP…
The Associated Press continues to put up archived footage from yesteryear online and some of it is striking. These recently caught my eye. An 11-minute German training video from 1940 showing V1 and...
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Cold over Wintershaven
80 years ago today: “A formation of 15th Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses fly through flak-filled sky en route to attack the Wintershaven oil storage facilities at Vienna, on 19 November 1944.”...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday) Nov. 21, 2024: The Sweet Pea
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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Send in the Scouts!
Happy National Native American Heritage Month. With that, how about a short look at the 20th Century U.S. Army Indian Scouts program? While the Army used native troops going back to the Revolution,...
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K Ration Thanksgiving
80 years ago. Official period caption. “80th Infantry Division. Near Faulquemont, France. 23 November, 1944. Three American infantrymen eat K Rations on Thanksgiving day in a dugout somewhere in...
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Hoosier Houseboat
80 years ago this week, a fantastic series of photos of the late South Dakota-class battleship USS Indiana (BB 58) conducting a high-speed turn in Puget Sound, November 30, 1944. BuShips photos via...
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KDG checking his mount
Some 80 years ago today, a dicky White M3 25-pounder GMC (Gun Motor Carriage) being inspected by a trooper of the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards (note the KDG badge on his sleeve) while operating as part...
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Au Revoir Tchad
The Republic of Chad, a French colony from 1900 with the defeat of Sudanese warlord Rabih az-Zubayr at the one-sided Battle of Kousssri (4,500 Sudanese casualties to 103 French), to 1960 when it...
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Murderers’ Row
80 years ago today, 2 December 1944, in an ode to the ’27 Yankees. Third Fleet fast carriers anchored in Ulithi Atoll, Carolines, in a brief lull before the start of the Mindoro landings in the...
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Kangaroo in the Pouch
How about this great shot some 80 years ago this week showing the stern of the destroyer USS Claxton (DD-571), at left, a bow-on view of the heavy cruiser USS Canberra (CA-70), center, and another tin...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 4, 2024: Danish E-Boat Days
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday to 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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Yuletide CBI Warhawks, Complete with Cranberry
Official wartime caption: “While still on alert duty, S/Sgt. J.A. Muller, Cpl. John W. Coleman, and Cpl. L.B. Thomas of the 16th Fighter Squadron, 51st Fighter Group, consume their Christmas Dinner on...
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Storis to Return, Zumwalt Floats, Arkansas Launches
U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Storis during the run for a short-cut Northwest Passage prepares to send helicopters aloft on ice reconnaissance before proceeding eastward through Amundsen Gulf to Dolphin...
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Rustyguts!
This week, some 85 years ago, Canadian maritime artist Donald Mackay’s painting depicts the open sea bridge of the destroyer HMCS Restigouche (H00) escorting a large convoy of troop ships, including...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 11, 2024: Cathedral 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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