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Warship Wednesday: Oct. 2, 2019, HMs Unlucky Killer No. 13
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 Gipper and the Boxer
You have to love a good photo-ex, as they are naval history in the making. These shots, credited to Mass Communication Specialists Brian P. Caracci and Erwin Jacob V. Miciano, show Carrier Strike Group...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct 9, 2019: Queen City Admiral Maker
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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The Gray Ghost arrives on Yankee Station
Official Caption: “The biggest and fastest guns operating in the Tonkin Gulf belong to the USS NEWPORT NEWS (CA-148). Her 8-inch/55 caliber rapid-fire guns rake North Vietnamese targets daily during...
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Happy Birthday USN!
As you may know, the 244th Birthday of the U.S. Navy (well, technically begun as the Continental Navy) is this week. Continental Navy sloop-of-war Fly (8 guns) along with Continental Navy sloop-of-war...
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Bunker Hill Buffs, Here’s a Treat
“The Whites of Their Eyes” Colonial militia at Bunker Hill 1775. Ken Riley. Located at the JFK Presidential Library. Morphy’s has some very interesting and historically significant artifacts coming up...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct 16, 2019: The Everlasting VDG
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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Scooters of South America
A thing of beauty: A formation of U.S. Navy VA-22 A4C “Skyhawk” aircraft over Mt. Fuji, Japan, 27 April 1964. NHHC Some 3,000 A4D/A-4 Skyhawks were produced between 1954 and 1979, and the type flew...
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Dismounted
A facet often ignored in books, movies, and shows portraying horse cavalry of any era was the downfall that, whenever fighting dismounted, you could not simply allow your precious horses to mill about...
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Look who’s dressed up for Halloween
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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Getting the creeps at Fort Morgan
Every year the good folks at Fort Morgan run a historic nighttime tour around Halloween focusing on the more morbid side of things there. As the fort is 200 years old (construction began in 1819) and...
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Reverence, 88 years ago today
You almost get a sense of storm clouds on the horizon here in this beautiful image of a “treaty cruiser,” USS Indianapolis (CA-35) at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, 7 November 1931, her launch...
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Feldgrau is so hot right now for Fall fashion
This month Hermann Historica has a special auction, Die kaiserliche Armee in Feldgrau (The Imperial Army in Field Grey) which includes the famed Lacey Collection of more than 100 often rare uniforms of...
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Happy birthday, USMC
Semper Fidelis! To salute the 244th Anniversary of the U.S. Marine Corps, established at Tun’s Tavern, November 10, 1775, here is the 168th poster, issued during the Corps’ hard-fought campaign for...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019: A Dazzling Flivver
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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So I watched Midway…
To be clear, the current Midway movie is at least the third film– counting John Ford’s WWII-era propaganda short and the verbose 1976 Henry Fonda flick– to be centered around the pivotal battle of the...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019: We’ll fight them both
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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Dazzling
I get that haze grey and shades of are great visual camouflage at sea these days, but you just have to love these “throwback” North Atlantic camo schemes that the Royal Canadian Navy is using to...
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Dreadnought v. Little Green Men?
Anyone watching the BBC’s new War of the Worlds? While the H.G. Wells classic was set in his contemporary 1897 and included a great scene with the fictitious Royal Navy torpedo ram HMS Thunder Child...
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Kimball meets Pearl
Check out these great pictures of a recent lightning storm over the USCGC Kimball (WMSL-756) and Honolulu Harbor Photos courtesy of MSST 91107 Kimball is the Coast Guard’s seventh Legend-class National...
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