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Warship Wednesday Aug 3, 2016: The Grand Ole Bear
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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Gotta love a Flying Skull redhead
Here we see a Consolidated B-24D Liberator heavy bomber, specifically #42-72843 “Strawberry Bitch” at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. DAYTON,...
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LOC does the Great War
Joseph Pennell (1857–1926). Submarines in Dry Dock, 1917. Transfer lithographic drawing. Bequest of the Estate of Joseph Pennell. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00)...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Forward-looking Submarine Ops of Luis Philip Senarens
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, photographers...
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Pedersen gun pr0n- The WWI superweapon that (almost) won the war
Here we see a beautiful Springfield Armory 1903 MK I .30-06 SPRG caliber rifle with an uber rare and original Pedersen device. Mr. Pedersen’s device was a very simple top loading, blowback-operated...
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One stop box set fit for a Napoleonic gentleman
Here is a matching exhibition quality gold inlaid and engraved cased four gun garniture by renowned French gunsmith Nicolas Noel Boutet (you do know Boutet, don’t you?) of Versailles including 12mm...
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Caucasian horsemen and their rare bolt-guns
Here we see a group of of the 2nd General Krukovskii’s Mountain-Mozdok Regiment of the Terek Cossacks, with their distinctive Cossack model Mosin-Nagant Model 91s. The Cossacks were organized somewhat...
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Warship Wednesday Aug 24, 2016: 100-feet of Turkish Surprise
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 U-2 is still amazing some 70 years on
Boxcar is still utterly magnificent even far past the 1950s technology that tossed this unlikely recon asset into the air as shown in this video from USAF. Beale Air Force Base, California, is home to...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Emil Hünten
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, photographers...
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Falcons and Crows
A lot of people hate colorized monochrome images. I happen to like them, however, what you see here are historical Autochrome images, an early color process (sourced from here). The images are a...
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Warhawk in flight (without shark jaws!)
Click to big up View of a Curtiss Warhawk P-40F fighter plane. Label on back: “New Curtiss Warhawk fighter for the U.S. Army Air Forces. Shown in this close-up flight photo is the U.S. Army Air Forces’...
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Bluejackets at play in the last part of the 19th Century
Here is a great series of postal cards from the Detroit Publishing Co in the 1870s-1890s showing various scenes around the fleet. Several of these were taken on the grand old ship of the line USS...
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HMS Terror found by Canadian Ranger (but not reported for a bit)
A watercolour of the HMS Terror exploring the Canadian Arctic, which she would never leave (Canadian Museum of Civilization) Canada’s plucky Ranger force, a group of some 5,000 part time soldiers...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 21, 2016: HMs Devastating muzzle-loading turret ship
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 Sept. 28, 2016: From the Lingayen to the FloraBama
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 James Arthur Pownall
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, photographers...
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Dear Mum,
Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library Biplane above the clouds. Handwritten on photograph front: “France, 1918, De Haviland ‘4.’” Handwritten on photograph back: “De...
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Warship Wednesday October 5, 2016: The quiet behemoth of Toulhars
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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Three pipehitters from the Corvin Passage, 60 years ago this month
The below image by Peter Dennis via MHE shows off a motley group of three freedom fighters in the Hungarian Revolution of October-November 1956 against the Soviets and the country’s puppet regime who...
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