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A special Combat Gallery Sunday: The original Fighting Irish, on the eve of...
Absolution Under Fire, By Paul Wood, via the Snite Museum of Art Notre Dame. Note the drummer boys in distinctive Zouave uniforms and the famous green harp flag. Click to bigup On July 2nd 1863,...
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Warship Wednesday, July 5, 2017: HMs cruiser bruiser
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, July 12, 2017: Woodrow’s biggest German
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Big J gets one of her lost 40mm mounts back
“USS New Jersey in Vietnam” Painting, Tempera on Paper; by John Charles Roach; 1969; NHHC Accession #: 88-197-CE Launched in 1942, New Jersey (BB-62) saw service in WWII and Korea before being...
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Canadian whisky in U.S-built FFG recovered in Oz
To replace their aging Adams (Perth)-class DDGs, the Royal Australian Navy in the 1980s ordered a six-pack of Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigates. Known as the Adelaide-class in RAN...
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The mosquito boats at Midway
While the huge carrier task forces get all the attention at Midway, there was also an unsung fleet of plywood boats who took part in the battle as well. As part of the local defenses at Midway were 11...
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That time the U.S. Navy sent a wolfpack to hunt a wolfpack
Here we see the painting “SubRon50: The Jerry Hunters” by Dwight Clark Shepler. Painted in 1943, it shows three of seven “boats” of the U.S. Submarine Squadron 50 alongside the elderly USS Beaver...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug 9, 2017: The King’s most curious battlecruiser
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Sock’s Clippers and their 24-hour run
This majestic beast is a Consolidated P2Y-1, coded “10-P-1” denoting it as the command plane of LCDR Knefler “Sock” McGinnis, of patrol squadron VP-10F, as it peaks over the Hawaiian coastline, en...
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Warship Wednesday, August 16, 2017: Possibly the most Devil Dog carrier, ever
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Case colored
I came across this at an airshow event I attended and was struck by it, so I figured I would share with like-minds. Photo Chris Eger Note the beautiful discoloration on the airskin from the flame...
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Warship Wednesday, August 23, 2017: Wilhelmina’s Tromp card
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The Royal Tank Regiment is having a 1980’s throwback, but it’s not for a parade
The British Army’s RTR is using a series of urban camo-painted Challenger 2 MBT’s in a series of tests to judge their ability to lay low in ruined cities. Of their three Sabre Squadrons (Ajax, Badger,...
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Looks like a story board from Apocalypse Now, but it’s real
On the night of October 27-28, 1965 Viet Cong forces launched an attack on a newly built helicopter facility at Marble Mountain, southeast of Da Nang, RVN. “Reflected Night Battle, Marble Mountain”...
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Those who haven’t been to sea have never really seen the sky
The amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) patrols waters off the coast of Australia under a star-lit night during Talisman Saber 17. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Clay...
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The Brits really dug camo for their snipers
Common among snipers the world over today, the ghillie suit or bush suit, traces its origin to Scottish gamekeepers with a Scotland-raised yeoman regiment, the Lovat Scouts, using them for the first...
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Happy first day of fall
And in thoughts of things colder, here is the Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) digging the Northern Lights as she transits the Arctic Circle Sept. 5,...
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I bet Hugo Schmeisser is rolling and spinning
There, under the Krinkov, is a German StG44 in exploded view, which would probably be OK on any monument except that of Mikhail Kalashnikov As I covered over at Guns.com, the Russians spent 35 million...
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Adams and Jax
The former USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) was ordered in 1957 and was a very important stepping stone in modern Naval history due to her being designed to complete as a guided missile destroyer, carrying...
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Thucydides! Get your ice cold Thucydides, here!
Bored? Check out Dr. Craig Nation, from the Dept. of Nation Security and Strategy, speaking for an hour about Athenian historian and general Thucydides, chronicler of the Peloponnesian War, at Carlisle...
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