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On the Beach with the Boys
Official wartime caption, 85 years ago today: “Men of the 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers practice firing their .55 caliber Boys anti-tank rifles on the beach near Etaples, 6 February 1940.” At the time the...
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Strangers in a Strange Land
Some 110 years ago this month, a surreal scene: The 19th Lancers (Fane’s Horse) of the Indian Cavalry Corps, on the march in the snow, Northern France, February 1915. The unit traced its lineage to...
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Black Widow On Deck
80 years ago this week, a USAAF 421st Night Fighter Squadron Northrop P-61B-20-NO Black Widow (SN 43-8317) seen landing at recently liberated and expanded Puerto Princesa Airfield, Tacloban, Leyte, 8...
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The Tropical Rainforests of Hampshire
80 years ago this month, 2 February 1945. “Trainees in a wooded area with their faces painted with camouflage paint, wearing American fatigue caps and gaiters and Carrying American ‘Tommy’ guns,...
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Buckeyes in Manila
A great moment showing in time, 80 years ago today. AP Photo caption, “During the hard street fighting against Japanese strongpoint at the New Police Station, Pandacan district, GIs of the 129th...
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Bazooka Joes
80 years ago this week. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Two soldiers of an M9 2.36-inch bazooka section blow out a Japanese pillbox at Heart Point, on Corregidor Island, Philippines on or around 19...
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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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On the Beach with the Boys
Official wartime caption, 85 years ago today: “Men of the 1st Royal Welsh Fusiliers practice firing their .55 caliber Boys anti-tank rifles on the beach near Etaples, 6 February 1940.” At the time the...
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Strangers in a Strange Land
Some 110 years ago this month, a surreal scene: The 19th Lancers (Fane’s Horse) of the Indian Cavalry Corps, on the march in the snow, Northern France, February 1915. The unit traced its lineage to...
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Black Widow On Deck
80 years ago this week, a USAAF 421st Night Fighter Squadron Northrop P-61B-20-NO Black Widow (SN 43-8317) seen landing at recently liberated and expanded Puerto Princesa Airfield, Tacloban, Leyte, 8...
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The Tropical Rainforests of Hampshire
80 years ago this month, 2 February 1945. “Trainees in a wooded area with their faces painted with camouflage paint, wearing American fatigue caps and gaiters and Carrying American ‘Tommy’ guns,...
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Buckeyes in Manila
A great moment showing in time, 80 years ago today. AP Photo caption, “During the hard street fighting against Japanese strongpoint at the New Police Station, Pandacan district, GIs of the 129th...
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Bazooka Joes
80 years ago this week. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Two soldiers of an M9 2.36-inch bazooka section blow out a Japanese pillbox at Heart Point, on Corregidor Island, Philippines on or around 19...
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GIs find Uruguay
80 years ago this week. Company B, 638th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Official wartime caption: “Cpl. Elliot Roy, Brooklyn, N.Y., Pvt. Claude Patton, Ashland, Ky., and T/5 Oscar Schnell examine a German...
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Hr.Ms. K XI, found
Dutch Onderzeeboot Hr.Ms. K XI at Satonda, Nederlands-Indië, March 1931. She was the class leader of a trio of 218-foot 800-ton “colonial” submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy, so-called as they...
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Got a light, bub?
80 years ago today. One of the most iconic images from Operation Detachment. Marine Private First Class Wilfred Voegeli, of Wichita, Kansas, armed with a flame thrower, takes a break to light up his...
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Just relaxing along the Irrawaddy
80 years ago today. Official caption: “The British Army in Burma. Men of 2nd Division man a position on the Irrawaddy River near Pagan, Burma, 25 February 1945.” Photo by SGT. P. Sanders, No. 9 Army...
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Powell, Awash
80 years ago today, on 27 February 1945, the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) was seen in a series of period Kodachromes during a very wet replenishment near Japan alongside the fast...
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Bren & Mills
Offical caption: Gunner J. Hinchcliffe, of Sheffield, 30 years old, and upholsterer before the war, setting out on a “recce” patrol in the Dunkirk perimeter, 3 March 1945. The Bren Gunner is assigned...
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