Warship Wednesday July 22, 2015: The (Giant) Messenger God
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
View ArticleCombat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Walter Baumhofer
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday, July 29, 2015: The saddest story of World War II– 70 years...
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
View ArticleCombat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Richard Jack
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
View ArticleUSS Pennsylvania gets an escort from King Poseidon
Video shows Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735) underway in the vicinity of Hawaii. Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Jason Swink | Commander Submarine Forces Pacific |...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday Aug 5, 5015: 225 Years of Semper Paratus
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
View ArticleGallipoli survivor, HMS M33, opens to public today
Yay! HMS M.33 coastal bombardment vessel from Gallipoli campaign. Credit National Museum of the Royal Navy NMRN. Click to big up M33 Wheel with Victory and Mary Rose in view Stern 1848×1230 If you are...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday Aug 12, His Majesty’s Frozen U-boat Busting Bulldog
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
View ArticleLast ride of the Phrog
Photo: Cpl. Owen Kimbrel | Department of Defense | 141029-M-CJ278-111 CLICK TO BIG UP 2000×1124 After six decades of Marines, the final CH-46E Sea Knight in U.S. service made its last flight and she is...
View ArticleCombat Gallery Sunday: The Purrfict Martial Art of Alexander Zavaliy
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
View ArticleBut how was that cheese sammy?
Based on a quote by Lieutenant Ken Giles about commanding a M3 Grant in North Africa from Douglas’ ‘Alamein to Zem Zem’ artwork by Eric Toner
View ArticleFarewell, Edinburgh
A historic Navy destroyer last week left Britain for the last time to be sold for scrap in Turkey after a campaign to turn it into tourist attraction in Edinburgh ended in failure. It had been hoped...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday Aug 19, 2015: The first of the bucking ‘165s
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
View ArticleDecoy angel
1500×998 HMS Richmond‘s Lynx helicopter, from 815 Squadron at Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton, lights up the night sky with her decoy flares as part of an exercise while on patrol in the Indian Ocean...
View ArticleThe briefly loved and beautiful zouave uniform
Print shows a French zouave in 1853, wearing uniform and holding rifle, on cigarette card issued by Kinney Tobacco Company as an insert with the Sweet Caporal brand cigarettes. When the French went...
View ArticleCombat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Robert McCall
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday Aug 26, 2015: The Finnish Lighthouse Battleships
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
View ArticleA serious surface action group, circa 1986
2673 × 1729 1 July 1986, U.S. Defense Imagery photo VIRIN: DN-SC-87-00354 by PH2 Orell, USN An aerial view of the first U.S. Navy battleship battle group to deploy to the Western Pacific since the...
View ArticleWarship Wednesday Sept. 2, 2015: Dodge’s Dauntless Delphine
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
View ArticleCombat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Bruce Minney
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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