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A British Apache in California
Star trails over an Apache AH Mk 1 of 4 Regiment Army Air Corps (4 Regt AAC) sitting in the Mojave Desert during a Joint Helicopter Command (JHC) training exercise, working alongside Dutch, US and...
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Warship Wednesday October 12, 2016: The sometimes frosty but always dedicated...
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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Star Wars, we are here
(U.S. Navy photo by Andy Wolfe/Released) CHESAPEAKE BAY, Md. (Oct. 17, 2016) Aircraft CF-02, an F-35 Lightning II Carrier Variant piloted by CDR Jonathan “Flopper” Murphy, attached to the F-35 Pax...
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Warship Wednesday October 19, 2016: Der Zerstörer von Uncle Sam
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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Not every kukri-armed soldier was a Gurkha
The kukri is a traditional Nepalese weapon. It is most commonly associated with the Gurkha units serving with the Indian or British armies. However it was used, on a less official basis, by other...
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Herky reflection
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Michael De Nyse. Click to big up. Caption: U.S. Coast Guard crew members from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida, prepare an HC-130 Hercules...
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A .50 cal gunner from the Meat Hound
Right waist gunner Staff Sergeant Frank T. Lusic of Eighth Air Force’s “Meat Hound” a Boeing B-17F-55-BO Flying Fortress (s/n 42-29524) assigned first to the 423th Bomb Sqn, 306th Bomb Group in early...
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Cleo of Corinth
IWM Photo CT87 The British frigate HMS CLEOPATRA (F28) in the Corinth Canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea, 1970. The rock walls, which rise 300 ft. above sea...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 9: The hardworking white hull from Beantown
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Alex Schomburg
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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Warship Wednesday Nov. 16: Estonia’s national hero, AKA the Soviet’s immortal...
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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Fly me to the (super) moon and let me play among the stars
A few of the better ones that I have seen this week. My skyline was socked in by low altitude cloud cover and I got nothing 161114-N-PJ969-038 CORONADO, Calif. (Nov. 14, 2016) The brightest moon in...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Don Troiani
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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Smoke em if you got em
Australian National Maritime Museum Object number 00049309 Bill Ettershank (owner/skipper) of the KEWARRA, lights one up while out looking for anything unusual in WWII as part of the Australian...
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New USS Arizona Memorial Dedicated at University of Arizona
Photo Credit Aengus Anderson A new memorial to the sunken battleship the USS Arizona was unveiled on Sunday, three days before the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that propelled the...
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The nicest factory Nagant revolver, ever
Via RIA This extremely fine M1895 Nagant revolver, #7644, was produced at the Tula Arsenal in 1912 and has been extensively decorated in a koftgari/damascene style with extensive floral scroll patterns...
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Good old Sinterklaas, then and now
Photo by Royal Air Force official photographer Clark N S (P/O) via IWM CL 1729, Colorised by Pink Santa Claus (Leading Aircraftman Fred Fazan from London) hands out presents to Dutch children at...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday!): The dazzling President of the Royal Navy
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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Ghosts of the Rukla forest
U.S. Marine Sgt. Kirstin Merrimarahajara captured a Marine walking through Rukla Training Area, Lithuania during Exercise Iron Sword 16. The Marines, after all, have a history of fighting deep in the...
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A beautiful Naval image that is sure to be a classic
You could imagine this in a sepia tone and easily see an old Connecticut-class predreadnought here rather than a modern DDG. VILLEFRANCHE, France (Dec. 19, 2016) The guided-missile destroyer USS Nitze...
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