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Warship Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015: The (bad) luck of the Irish
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...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Herbert Knotel
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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Warship Wednesday Sept. 16, 2015: The little tug that could (and did)
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...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Mel Crair
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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Warship Wednesday Sept. 23, 2015: Big Chris from Norway
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...
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They also served: The Commonwealth in WWI
While the British Isles suffered greatly in WWI, the Commonwealth nations of the larger Empire have something of an unsung history. Portrait of an Indian cavalryman. Note the SMLE and saber India...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Manuel García García
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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Warship Wednesday Sept. 30, 2015: The Deseret Battlewagon
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...
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Revisit World War I’s 100th anniversaries day by day
The Great War Day by Day is an illustration blog about the First World War (1914-1918) that delves into the conflict daily with a graphic that takes the reader back in time to today’s date 100 years...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 7, 2015: Los Submarinos!
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...
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The glorious 1933 U.S. Navy
Gorgeous painting depicting USS Macon (ZRS-5) over US fleet about 1933. The carrier might be the Lexington (CV-2) if not, it would be the Saratoga, her sister. Macon was the largest airship of the...
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Watanabe’s wife was not to trifle with
“Watanabe’s wife with a child on her back and two severed heads at her feet” from Taiso Yoshitoshi’s Biographies of Valiant Drunken Tigers (1874). The weapon in her capable hands is a naginata. More...
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Do you know this coat?
Luther Hanson, Quartermaster Museum curator, shows the inside padding of a circa 1810-1820 coatee that was once displayed but is currently in storage because it has not yet been fully identified. If it...
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Mauser’s last pistol: The sophisticated yet simple HSc
You may know Mauser’s excellent and enduring bolt-action rifles (or at least their properties which have been copied worldwide since the 1880s), but their pistols are less known. Further, their elegant...
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Extensively engraved one-of-a-kind Berden SP101
Sure, you have seen regular Ruger SP-101s, and let us face it, they are great guns, but have you seen one that has been custom hand engraved and embellished by a master jeweler with 25 years of...
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Good morning, Household Troops style
“While London slept, and the streets were deserted of traffic, more than 1,100 troops and 230 horses from the Army’s Household Division were out in force rehearsing military manoeuvres in the dark for...
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RN prepping for Jutland Redux
Scorched by fire, blackened by soot and cordite, this is the silk battle ensign of the Royal Navy’s greatest ‘castle of steel’, last seen flying from HMS Warspite as she clashed with the Germans at...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Albert Brenet
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like...
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Dinner AND a show
The Coast Guard’s newest (and lightest) icebreaker, the 15-year old USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) is underway for Arctic West Summer (AWS) 2015 for which she got underway on Wednesday, 24 June. It may be...
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A sinking Helldiver
“Mission Beyond Darkness” by Robert Taylor. “In the foreground the SB2C Helldiver of Lieutenant Ralph Yaussi, its tanks dry, has ditched near the carrier USS Lexington. As Yaussi and his gunner James...
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