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Eve of the inferno
It happened some 85 years ago this month at Naval Air Station, North Island, San Diego, in June 1940, The newly commissioned class-leading fast carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) is seen embarking aircraft...
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Mortars and Sandals
Between February 22 and 28 1951, Haiduong (French Indochina, now Vietnam). Elements of the locally recruited Bataillon de Marche Indochinois (BMI) advance through rice paddies during Operation...
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Seegaara? Zigarette?
It happened 80 years ago this week, 14 June 1945, Stuttgart, Germany. Official period caption: “Goumiers from a Moroccan tabor trade tobacco with a local resident. No tobacco supplies arrive in the...
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Famous Fleet boat Easter Egg VLS tribute
Spotted on submarine reddit: Los Angeles-class Flight II hunter-killer USS Pittsburgh (SSN-720) with her VLS hatches open, showing badges of some famous WWII USN submarines. I don’t know the author,...
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Warship Wednesday, June 25, 2025: Rozhestvensky’s Pirates
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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Got some time to spare? If you are interested in Army history and the 10th Mountain, now some 80 years young, you are going to want to watch this. Filmed in frigid upstate New York at Fort Drum and the...
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Warship Wednesday, July 2, 2025: Lost Bird of the Baltic
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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Last flight of JA853
This haunting polyptych, courtesy of the Australian War Memorial, depicts the final moments of RAF 7 Squadron Pathfinder Force Avro Lancaster JA853 MG-L, bound for Berlin, but instead was downed over...
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So long, Tiger
Best known in the West as the Freedom Fighter or Tiger II in later models, the Northrop F-5 in Taiwan, the Republic of China, will always be remembered as the Tiger, a 60-year love affair that ended...
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Warship Wednesday, July 9, 2025: Gravity Boat
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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