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The F-4 Phantoms of the Colonial Navy
Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm FG.1 Phantoms of No. 892 Naval Air Squadron back on board the carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) after a visit to a US Naval Air Station (NAVSTA) Oceana where they worked up with USS...
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Warship Wednesday, July 1, 2020: The Hunchback of Nord Virginia
Here at LSOZI, we 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 all their own,...
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Happy Independence Day: NAVAIR Bicentennial Schemes
The 1976 Bicentennial celebration these days is probably best remembered for the occasional side-drum Minuteman quarter coin they find in their change. However, for those who don’t remember or weren’t...
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Fireworks Underway
Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56) alongside USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) providing Iron Ike’s crew a “fireworks” barrage from her embarked guns in honor of...
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Faireys on the Nile, 90 Years Ago Today
Pictured are three Fairey IIIF floatplanes of No. 47 Squadron on the Blue Nile at Khartoum before departing for a series of exploratory flights over Southern Sudan on 8 July 1930. The aircraft pictured...
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Warship Wednesday, July 15, 2020: 3 Names, 5 Flags, 6 Wars
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Warship Wednesday, July 22, 2020: A Hard 73 Days
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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The Emperor’s Chambermaids: Happy 305th
Hayes, Michael Angelo, “The 14th. (or The King’s) Light Dragoons. Heavy marching order” (1840). Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository....
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Ack Ack in the sky
“Ack Ack in the sky: When Japanese bombers attempted to sneak in on Cape Gloucester under cover of darkness, Marine units there sent up this concentration of ack-ack tracer fire. It makes very pretty...
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The road to Daegu
This original color photo shows the crew of an M-24 Chaffee light tank along the Naktong River front in largely DPRK-occupied South Korea. Note the sign to Daegu. NARA FILE#: 111-C-6061 On the ground...
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BBQ…swords?
Today the term “BBQ Gun” floats around for those who utilize a nice or customized handgun for some sort of open carry, be they a small-town sheriff ala Longmire style or just someone who likes to...
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Canvas and steel, 130 years ago today
Here we see the early Boston-class protected cruiser USS Atlanta in Boston harbor, 11 August 1890, with bluejackets on her yardarms during the Eastern Yacht Club Regatta. A member of the so-called “New...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020: Franz Josef’s Sharpshooter
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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Sun’s out, guns out
Resistance fighters with the French Forces of the Interior armbands meet up with curious recently arrived American troops on the beach in the Saint Tropez area during Operation Dragoon landings along...
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General Order of a Sentry, No. 5
Faithful Unto Death, by Edward Poynter, 1865, via the Walker Art Gallery in London, where it is on display. On what was believed by many to be the night of 24/25 August in AD 79, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius...
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A parade of modern naval architecture underway in the bright blue of the Pacific, showing off some 23 ships and submarines! The great formation PHOTOEX captured on the below 5~ minute video shows off...
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The power of Bangalore compels you!
“A sapper assigned to 54th Brigade Engineer Battalion, operating in support of 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, clears a mine with a bangalore torpedo during...
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Yamamoto’s giant realized
“Seaman Paul Gray rides a Japanese bicycle in Tokyo, Japan. Photographed by Lieutenant Wayne Miller, September 1945.” National Archives Photo 80-G-473728 (TR-15480)
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Happy Birthday, Snake, the hardest laboring gunship in the Free World
“Cobras At Night” Vietnam Era, by Robert T. Coleman, March 1968. Acrylic on board, 18″ x 24″ depicting AH-1 Cobra gunships working 2.75-inch rockets amongst the locals. U.S. Army Center of Military...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020: From the Kattegat to Rabaul
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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