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A ‘full-fledged D-E sailor’
Short Cruise on a Destroyer Escort, By Ernie Pyle: “So now I’m a D-E sailor. Full-fledged one. Drenched from head to foot with salt water. Sleep with a leg crooked around your rack so you won’t fall...
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Touring Germany with a Chopped Down M1 Carbine
With personal space at a premium inside the tracked metal monsters of a World War II tank battalion, guns sometimes got unofficially smaller. Check out this great image, snapped some 80 years ago this...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025: Go Long
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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CMP Raises Gun Limits
Official caption: “Group of men surround the last M1 .30-caliber rifles off the production line. Col. Hurlbut stands on the left. Lt. Col. Septfonds stands second from left. John C. Garand stands...
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The Littlest Wren
Some 82 years ago this week, the official caption: “WREN Nancy Jackson asking the sentry’s permission to go onboard a destroyer to deliver a message in Harwich, Essex, England – January 15, 1943. At 4...
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Getting Greasy
Just 40 years ago this week. Official caption: “Private First Class (PFC) Jose Ledoux-Garcia of Company C, 5th Battalion, 77th Armor, guards his M60A3 main battle tank during Central Guardian, a phase...
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Of Giant Mittens and Broom Jockeys: BoBo’s Flying Circus
For the men of Patrol Bombing Squadron SIX (CG) who spent their entire stint in WWII in Greenland, the care and maintenance of their PBY-5A Catalinas was a bit different from the experience had by...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025: The 80 Eightballs
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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STENs and Radar-Directed 3.7s are a girl’s best friend
80 years ago this week: Private Kay Elms of the ATS, a member of 281st Battery, 137 (Mixed) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (TA), Royal Artillery, carries a STEN gun at a camp in Belgium, on 26 January...
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Cold Canuks
80 years ago today. Infantrymen of the French-Canadian Régiment de la Chaudière, who are wearing British winter camouflage clothing, on patrol, Bergendal, Netherlands, 24 January 1945. This is either...
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Warwickshire Cuckoos
Some 85 years ago this week, the regulars of 2 Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, part of the 2nd Infantry Division, British Expeditionary Force, drill in their snow-covered trench near...
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That Belgian Chill
80 years ago today. Members of the 740th Tank Battalion and Headquarters Company of the 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, advance in a snowstorm behind a tank...
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The Flotsam of History
In early February 1807, in Prussian Silesia, French Field Marshal Michel Ney’s cavalry clashed with mounted elements of Russian Lt. Gen. Karl Gustav von Baggovut’s column in the snow outside of the...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025: Saigon Beauty
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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Curious Airborne Puffer Fish
Captured 80 years ago this month. Official wartime caption: “Japanese balloon, Fu-Go [Fugu, 河豚; 鰒; フグ]. A completed Japanese balloon is inflated for laboratory tests at a California base. It was...
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Baptism for the American Ski Troops
Some 80 years ago this month, members of the intelligence and reconnaissance (I&R) platoon, 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, logged the first documented combat use of ski...
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Glass Sherman
You think you are cold! 80 years ago today: 1st February 1945 – Fifth Army, Poretta Area, Italy. A Fifth Army M4 Sherman medium tank of the U.S. 751st Tank Battalion is inclined to use as an ersatz...
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Sydney’s Beauty
The second HMAS Sydney was a modified Leander class light cruiser that began life as the Royal Navy’s HMS Phaeton on 8 July 1933. Relegated to local patrols in the Pacific in 1939, she only headed...
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That Sinking Feeling
As any sailor will vouch, there is always that hollow feeling that comes over you at least once while over the deep blue, far from shore, where you realize that it is never a certain thing that the...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025: Gallant Gussi
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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