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Warship Wednesday, June 23, 2021: The St. Thomas Slugger
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Benko and The Goon
(U.S. Air Force Number 53334AC). National Archives Identifier 204829567. Official caption: Chengkung, China, copied 8/8/44 308th B.G. The crew of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator “Goon”. Left to right,...
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Desert Haka, 80 Years Ago Today
Via Time to Go Home. 25 June 1941, Egypt: Members of the 28 (Māori) Battalion, Royal New Zealand Army, performing a haka, the ancestral Māori war cry. “The four men in the foreground are (from left to...
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MIG Alley
70 Years Ago Today. Air Guard in MIG Alley by William S. Phillips, via the U.S. Air Force National Guard’s Heritage Collection MIG Alley, North Korea — June 26, 1951 — During the Korean War over...
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Pan Am Clipper, Mariner Edition
This beautiful original Kodachrome taken in January 1943, shows a Glenn L. Martin Company PBM-3R Mariner flying boat picking up dual Navy and Pan American Airways markings, likely at the...
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Talk About a Recruiting Poster
STRAIT OF MALACCA (June 18, 2021) The Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) transits the South China Sea with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS...
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View from Above, Electric Acorn 105 edition
This is a really great shot of what looks like an M119A2/A3 (L118) 105mm howitzer slung under a UH-60 Blackhawk, one of the few modern guns light enough– just 5,100 lbs– for such lifts. Soldiers move...
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Beauty at the Hilt
A sample of amazing Japanese sword tsubas, dating primarily to the 1700s, from the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum. Tsuba (sword guard) with Ho (sail) Motif....
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Bicentennial Minuteman Corsairs
Last July 4th, we covered the NAVAIR Bicentennial schemes of 1976 so this is a good turnaround. A pair of Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D Corsair IIs of the New Mexico and Colorado Air National Guard,...
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Eagle and Lightning
The same photographer recently took these two shots from the same aspect at Hill AFB in Utah, and they really contrast the two fighters, showing off the best of 1986 vs the best of today. A McDonnell...
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Warship Wednesday, July 7, 2021: Chatham’s Last Cruiser
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Blackhats in the Field
Australians getting it done: A light company’s worth of Battlegroup Warhorse tanks from 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) along with 7th Brigade troops (largely from 6RAR) of...
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HOISTEX!
Kingfisher, the embarked RCAF CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopter of the Canadian frigate HMCS/NCSM Halifax (FFH 330) conducts a HOISTEX with Royal Norwegian Navy (Sjøforsvaret) Ula-class/Type 210...
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Warship Wednesday, July 14, 2021: The Edison Bubblehead Connection
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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One of these things is not like the Others
Two Forrestal-class supercarriers, (listed from bottom to top) USS Independence (CVA-62), and USS Saratoga (CVA-60), steaming alongside the Essex-class fleet carrier USS Intrepid (CVA-11). Underway in...
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Bon 14 juillet à tous! (With Echos to 1941)
Of interest to military history buffs, the 4,400-strong French military parade down les champs Élysée to celebrate the 232nd anniversary of Bastille Day yesterday was led by a 232-member company of...
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Time Capsule, Bonita in Beantown Edition
95 Years Ago: Check out this great shot of the V-class/Barracuda-class diesel-electric submarine USS V-3 (SF-6) at the Boston Navy Yard, most likely in June/July 1926, shortly after her commissioning...
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Halifax on Display
Check out this great overhead of the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Halifax (FFH 330), at the time flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2), during Operation Reassurance in the...
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Warship Wednesday, July 21, 2021: Luckiest of the Italian Heavies
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Talisman Sabre Photoex
Talk about a great shot. The ships of the forward-deployed USS America (LHA 6) Expeditionary Strike Group steam in formation during Talisman Sabre (TS) 21 in conjunction with warships from Australia,...
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