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Bon chance!
While the Mississippi Dixiecrat lawmaker John C. Stennis and the founder of the Fifth Republic of France Charles de Gaulle probably wouldn’t have played well together in many cases, their namesake...
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Lexington Common, 244th anniversary
Battle of Lexington – William Barnes Wollen National Army Museum; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation “By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled, Here once...
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Warship Wednesday, April 24, 2019: The Tiger with 17 Battle Stars to Prove It
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
View Article200.000 Tons of Diplomacy
This week in the Med saw something that hasn’ happened since 2016, two full Carrier Strike Groups, CSG 3 (USS John C. Stennis) and CGS 12 (USS Abraham Lincoln), steam together in formation. It is a...
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Climb Mount…Fuji
World War II in the Pacific began (unless you ask the Chinese or French) on 2 December 1941 with the famous “Niitakayama Nobore” (Climb Mount Niitaka) signal sent to Nagumo’s flagship to clear the way...
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Kilted Kenny
Gibb, Robert; Comrades, the 42nd Highlanders; The Black Watch Castle & Museum; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/comrades-the-42nd-highlanders-128430 The British Army has long included Highland...
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Execute, 15 years ago today
“Ships from five Allied navies assigned to Combined Task Force One Five Zero (CTF-150) execute breakaway maneuvers from formation for a photo opportunity while underway in the Gulf of Oman, in support...
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Flowerdew’s Charge
On 30 March 1918, during the Battle of Moreuil Wood which helped blunt Ludendorff’s massive Operation Michael spring offensive, the Canadian Cavalry Brigade– which had long been held in strategic...
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Centauro on the Med
UNIFIL peacekeepers from Italy, Ghana, and Malaysia jointly carried out a live firing exercise with the Lebanese Armed Forces (almost humorously abbreviated as, LAF) in an area about one kilometer...
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Warship Wednesday, May 8, 2019: Vladivostok’s Red Pennant
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Speaking of VE-Day
Here is past Combat Gallery Sunday artist Alex Colville with his haunting painting, Tragic Landscape (oil on canvas 61 x 91 cm, painted in 1945) depicting a fallen German Fallschirmjäger in the tail...
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Warship Wednesday, May 15, 2019: Lady Sara Never Looked Better
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Centurion moving in
The 19th century 80-gun third-rate ship HMS Centurion was built in 1844 as one of the last generations of Royal Navy ships-of-the-line. Later converted to steam and reduced in armament, she was sold in...
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A glimpse back in time
With the post today about HMS Centurion‘s figurehead, this 1877 painting by noted maritime artist James Tissot, entitled “Portsmouth Dockyard” seemed appropriate. Note, over the amourous Highlander’s...
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Z Unit, actual
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the suppressed M3 Grease Guns and Attack Force Z, here we see Capt. Henry William Nicholls, MC, (NX15737) of the Royal Australian Army Z Special Unit in 1945....
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Warship Wednesday, May 22, 2019: The Defiant Bicyclist
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all...
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Invasion Stripes, Belgian edition
The current 349th Squadron and 350th Squadron of the Belgian Air Force started out in 1942 as Nos. 349 and 350 RAF with exiled Free Belgian members in British livery. After cutting their teeth on...
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Warship Wednesday, May 29, 2019: About that new Marker in Times Square
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Liberantus Lardassarus Rex
IMA just posted this awesome USAAF A2 leather flight jacket issued to a Lieutenant G.S. Tate who was a Bombardier in the 15th Air Force, 456th Bombardment Group, 745th Bomb Squadron who’s B-24’s motto...
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D-Day through the brush of a GI who was there, 75 years ago today
D-Day, as seen below in eight, often haunting, paintings from U.S. Army combat artist Mitchell Jamieson, who landed in Normandy on Utah Beach with an M1 Garand and a sketchbook on 6 June before making...
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