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I yam what I yam
Here we see the Mk 75 Oto Melera Super Rapid Mount on the Boston-based USCGC Spencer (WMEC-905). These Italian-designed 76mm/62cal guns were made under license in the U.S. starting in 1978 by FMC...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Col. John W. Thomason, Jr., USMC
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Ah those long range shooting positons
The crack shots, in position: Dollymount, Creedmoor and Wimbledon. Currier & Ives, 1875 I dig the Highland Fling, personally. Photo by MCNY LOC has a bigger, though B&W version Of course, they...
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Warship Wednesday April 13, 2016 Champagne on ice via Corbeta
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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Warship Wednesday April 20, 2016: The Slugger of the Nevada Test Site
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Now that’s something you don’t see everyday
The future USS Zumwalt DDG 1000 returned from the at-sea portion of INSURV acceptance trials last Thursday after two days underway at sea. She is breathtaking. U.S Navy photo And, at 600-feet oal and...
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Such mean things about the humble Buffalo
With concerns voiced this month in an April 14 Government Accountability Office report that the F-35’s Autonomic Logistics Information System, which Department of Defense officials have described as...
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Or so the (urban) legend goes…
The sallet (also called celata, salade and schaller) was a war helmet that replaced the bascinet in Italy, western and northern Europe and Hungary during the mid-15th century and are an example of the...
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Warship Wednesday April 27, 2016: The flattop who saw Dragoon and Dracula,...
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Last Naval Aviator with an air-to-air kill leaves the service
On Jan. 17, 1991, LCDR Mark I. Fox was flying an F/A-18 Hornet with Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81, “Sunliners”) off USS Saratoga (CV-60). On that day, Fox shot down an Iraqi MiG-21. Fox and his...
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The very sinkable Thomas Oliver Selfridge
Nice spyglass, Captain There stands in U.S. Naval History an officer who drew the black bean not once, or twice, but well…let us just get into it. Born 6 February 1836 in old Charlestown, Massachusetts...
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Warship Wednesday May 4 2016: The original Wahunsenacawh
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The Attack of the Dead
One of the most celebrated pieces of Eastern European military lore of the 20th Century came from the tiny fortress of Osowiec (also spelled/spoken variously as Osovets, Ossovetz, Osovetz, Ossowicz,...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Timothy H. O’Sullivan
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Lost Soviet hero sub found
And no, this is no sandwich. The Russkis Schuka (Pike) class diesel subs of the 1930s were designed to be one massive class of boats, envisioned by the Revvoensoviet design bureau, to work effectively...
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‘No disintegrations’
Just going to drop this right here as I have always been a fan of pre-Edo period Imperial Japanese Ukiyo-e imagery, and Star Wars, which as many have noted, draws many inspirations from the old Empire....
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Thomas Hennell
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Ferdinand Petrie
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Warship Wednesday May 25, 2016: The Kaiser’s Pirate of Nauset Beach
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Jack Cornwell, the heroic gunner of Jutland, 100 years ago this week
Jack as a 15 year old Boy assigned to the training ship, the old armored cruiser H.M.S. Lancaster which was based at Chatam during WWI to train gunnery crews. Born 8th January 1900 in Essex, John...
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