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Recently B Squadron, 1st Armoured Regiment, of Royal Australian Army’s 1st Brigade deployed to Cultana Training Area to conduct live fire field training, where their M1A1 AIM SA Abrams main battle...
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Is it winter, yet?
With the temperatures rising steadily, here is a nice cool shot of USCGC Amberjack (WPB 87315) seen here moored alongside a CG mooring buoy in Valley Cove, Maine. Photo credit to MK2 Dakota Crow/USCG...
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Of Italian snake guns
Walking around all of these trade shows and gun events, every time you come across the Beretta booth you feel a little bad about yourself. While most other exhibitors will be guys in 5.11s and polos,...
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Senta a pua!
At first glance, this flyboy looks like he came standard issue in the U.S. Army Air Force’s 8th Air Force in the European Theatre of Operations in 1944. Then you notice the strange nose art motto on...
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The story of the Millionth Garand
Canadian-born firearms engineer Jean Cantius Garand went to work at the U.S. Army’s Springfield Armory in 1919 and age 29 and remained on the job until he retired in 1953. While he had a hand in a...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: Historic gendarmes a go-go
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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Singapore heavy
2nd battalion of Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in Malaya, pre-Pearl Harbor. Offical caption, “Constant practice in patrolling jungle roads, keeps members of this famous regiment in full fighting...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018: Oscar’s boldest pansarbat
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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The intersection of beauty and function, as cradled by St. Barbara
Here we see a 17th Century gunner’s level, created by Victor Starck around 1635 from the Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments in the collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen,...
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Swanky Franky’s Phlyers over Etna
Here we see a breathtaking image of a U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4N Phantom II (BuNo 150415) of Fighter Squadron VF-84 “Jolly Rogers” in flight over Sicily’s Mt. Etna, sometime in 1975. U.S. Navy National...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018: Ole Droopy
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept, 12, 2018: Of Chucktown, Apra and Camiguin
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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The man behind the 1911 poster
One of the most iconic images of the M1911 is the Great War recruiting painting “First to Fight” by James Montgomery Flagg. Flagg’s portrait, made from a sitting by then-U.S. Marine Capt. Ross Erastus...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: Sons of Empire
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, Sept, 19, 2018: The well-traveled Sea Otter
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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A big stick in Portsmouth harbor once more, 32 years ago today
20 September 1986: US Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) enters Portsmouth Naval Base, note HMS Victory, and several 372-foot long Royal Navy Leander-class frigates in the background for size comparison....
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Cold War artwork of Pavel Pavlinov and Andrey...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018: The last of the Royal Navy’s peculiar may bugs
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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Just add Cylon Basestar
For the first time in eight years, fighter jets flew from the decks of a British aircraft carrier this week, and here are some great images of F-35Bs conducting night flying trials off the new carrier...
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The spirit of 1898 at The Tomb
While the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington is a hallowed place, established in 1921 with the Unknown Soldier of the Great War and guarded in all weather 24/7/365 since 1937, it has few tie-ins to the...
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