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Warlocks hang up their last Orion, Final LANT P-3
The Lockheed L-188 Electra airliner made its first flight on 6 December 1957, and within two years, a variant pitched to the Navy as an armed maritime patrol aircraft joined it. Soon to be accepted as...
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Warship Wednesday 23 September 2026: With a Soaring Spirit
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Auto Ordnance Keeps up the Nose Art 1911s
I’ve dug what Pennsylvania-based Auto-Ordnance has done in the past with their WWII-themed M1911A1s, for instance, with their Black Sheep Squadron salute back in 2024. A functional work of art,...
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The future of war?
Kind of scary-looking, not going to lie. Official caption: A drone swarm launches during the XVIII Airborne Corps’ Exercise Scarlet Dragon 26-3 at Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 16, 2026. The exercise used...
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Last ‘Hog Flys Last Air Weapons School Training Flight
The end of an era, boys. The A-10 Thunderbolt II SN 82-0665 completed its final training sortie with the 66th Weapons Squadron this week, flown by Lt. Col. Ridge Flick, the unit’s commander. “The...
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Nothing like that Northern Wedding
Some 40 years ago, in the darkest stretch of the Cold War, Exercise Northern Wedding ’86 was a massive, three-week NATO maritime and amphibious exercise conducted from late August to mid-September...
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Warship Wednesday 16 September 2026: The Submarine Altered across my Bows and...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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The Woods are full of Finnish Dragoons
Here we see, some 85 years ago this month, a Finnish dragoon (Rakuuna) on horseback, 12th of September 1941, near Tsalkki-Suojärvi on the Russo-Finnish border during the Continuation War between the...
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First Team at Work on the Edge of the Storm
This week is the 105th anniversary of the establishment of the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division. To celebrate, how about this great photo essay of American horse cavalry in the field, Fort Bliss, Texas,...
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‘I could have died of old age holding this place’
Pour one out for Royal Marine Maj. Gen. Andrew Francis Whitehead, DSO, who well-earned the latter at the head of 45 RM Commando during the Falklands. While the other seven battalion-sized units of the...
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Not war, but you can see it from here
Some 85 years ago this week. Somewhere in the U-boat-filled North Atlantic. Convoy to Iceland, September 1941: the New Orleans-class heavy cruiser USS Tuscaloosa (CA 37) hoists in a Curtiss SOC...
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Warship Wednesday 9 September 2026: We were in action a Tremendous Amount of...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which...
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Catching a nap
Enjoy your day off, folks. You can almost smell autumn coming. “Catching a nap aboard a Man-o-War,” in an interior compartment of a U.S. Navy battleship, circa 1907-1908. Note the fire hose and nozzle...
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The French Brown Water Geese of Indochina
In a follow-up to Tuesday’s post on USCG Grumman (G-38) JRF-5G Goose amphibians, how about the rest of the story of the type’s journey in Indochina? Twelve ex-USN JRF-5s were sold to France in 1952 and...
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Hail to the King!
Like a king towering over his subjects! A red-topped UH-3H Sea King helicopter flies near three aircraft carriers moored at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, on Aug. 27, 2004. The carriers are (left to...
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Glamorous Goose
Some 75 years ago this month, aboard Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco, September 1951. How about a sharp original period Kodachrome of a beautiful Grumman (G-38) Goose amphibian JRF-5G, USCG Hull...
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Clydebank Beauty
Some 110 years ago this month, a great view of the conning tower and forward turrets, complete with newly-installed 15″/42 Mark I guns, of the future Renown-class battlecruiser HMS Repulse, seen whilst...
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Thanks, Mike!
The animated film Heavy Metal premiered in the United States and Canada on August 7, 1981, making it 45 years young this month. As any Gen Xer can vouch, HM and the magazine that went along with it...
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Checkerboard Fury: 110,743 rounds on Deployment
From the February 1959 issue of Navy Aviation News comes this article about the month-long deployment of the “Checkerboards” of Marine Fighter Squadron (VMF) 312 to Cuba. Sent “down south” during the...
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The Harrier Still Serves…
With the sunsetting of the AV-8B in USMC service in May, it is refreshing to see these images from the recently concluded Neptune Strike 26-3 of Spanish AV-8Bs (the world’s youngest Harriers) of Novena...
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