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Combat Gallery Sunday: Opening Up the Beach edition
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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D-Day Plus Seven
Here we see what Normandy looked like a week after Overlord in combat artist and Combat Gallery Sunday alum Dwight Shepler‘s 1944 watercolor, “D-Day Plus Seven, Omaha Beach Head, Landing scene with the...
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Filed Under: Other Navy Ships Named for Coasties
With the news earlier this month that SECNAV will be naming one of the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers after the late (great) Capt. Quentin Walsh, USCG, I’ve seen several news sources– both...
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Warship Wednesday, June 26, 2019: The sub-smoking Greenfish of the Amazon
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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Be sure to get your Mighty Mo on
Best $11 I ever spent at the U.S. Post Office. Of note, these were officially unveiled in a joint presser with USPS and RADM Brian Fort, commander of Navy Region Hawaii/Commander, Naval Surface Group...
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Warship Wednesday, July 10, 2019: The Slayer of Victoria
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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VFW Appeal: Give back those identifying NVA/Viet Cong souvenirs, please
Street Scene Vietnam By Kenneth J. Scowcroft, 1967 U.S. Army Art Collection, CMH Much like the recent trend on repatriating captured Japanese senninbari thousand-stitch belts and yosegaki hinomaru good...
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Shades of Balikpapan
The largest Australian-led amphibious landing and offensive assault in history were the OBOE 2 landings at Balikpapan, Borneo (then the Japanese-held Dutch East Indies) in which some 33,000 troops hit...
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They also served, and not just getting coffee
On this day, 77 years ago– just seven months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the proposal to establish the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) as part of...
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Warship Wednesday, July 31, 2019: “80 Sen,” or a young Yamamoto’s Italian...
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Guarding the fort
Official Caption: “Dec. 1942: Production. B-17 heavy bomber. An Army sentry guards new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers at the airfield of Boeing’s Seattle plant. The ship will be delivered to the Army...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade, Audregnies installment
On this day some 105 years ago, British Army Cpt. Francis Octavius Grenfell– aged 33 and a noted polo player– led the 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers into combat against the Germans at Audregnies, a small...
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The eerie quiet before the end, 74 years ago
“Pre-Surrender Nocturne Tokyo Bay.” Painting, Watercolor on Paper; by Standish Backus; 1945. Depicting the old forts at Futtsu Saki, a narrow point of land jutting into the eastern side of Uraga Strait...
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Warship Wednesday, Sep 4, 2019: The White Lady
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Monsters from Mars, or Forts from Seattle, either way
Official caption: “Giving them the appearance of Monsters from Mars, the vapor trails left by these B-17 Flying Fortresses of the U.S. Army 8th AF leave their marls in the sub-stratosphere. Vapor...
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Raubkatze zum Sprung!
Described by the modern German Bundeswehr as a Kampfpanzer (battle tank) the modern Leopard 2A6 is a thing of beauty in motion. The war engine evolved. Seen in Altmark this month. All photos via Der...
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Tiger roar
In a follow-up on the Leopard jump yesterday, let us show a little love to some Detriot muscle with a bit of Tiger roar. 1st Marine Division photo by Sgt. Tayler P. Schwamb Official caption: An M1A2...
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Remembering the Battle of the Atlantic
In an effort to commemorate the upcoming 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of the Atlantic next May and the Royal Canadian Navy’s role in that epic U-boat war, the Canadian Admiralty has...
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Warship Wednesday, Sep 18, 2019: The Red-Shirted Scourge of the Ottomans
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Royal Mail catches the maritime bug
Marine artist Robert G Lloyd was recently tapped by Royal Mail to paint both HMS Dreadnought, perhaps one of the most beautiful battlewagons ever, as well as the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen...
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