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Frigate-sized Goodwill
Via Kazuhiko Koshikawa, the Ambassador of Japan in the Philippines, yesterday, on the occasion of the launching of the largest cutter ever for the Philippine Coast Guard (Tanod Baybayin ng Pilipinas),...
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Full-Color Phantom
You’ll never convince me that the full-color schemes that the Navy/Marines used in the 1930s, then again in the 1960s and 70s, weren’t beautiful. USS Constellation (CVA-64), with Carrier Air Wing...
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Hyundai’s 120mm Laser
OK, well maybe not a laser but it sure looks like one! The Republic of Korea Army last week released several images of one of their K1A2 main battle tanks firing its 120mm KM256 smoothbore gun at a...
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Schooners and Kingfishers
Check out these beautiful shots, courtesy of the French Marine Nationale, showing the training schooners Etoile and Belle Poule buzzed by two civilian-owned Morane-Saulnier MS.733 Alcyons of the...
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‘Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead’
“Map showing entrance to Mobile Bay and the course taken by Union fleet,” by Robert Knox Sneden, about 157 years ago today (click to big up): 1710×2200. Retrieved from the Library of Congress,...
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Action at Sea!
This image has it all, and you can almost smell the saltwater and burnt propellant. Note the assorted seagoing tattoos, Dixie cup hats, total lack of eye and ear pro, and the assistant gunner with his...
View ArticleCodename Snake Eyes and Jungle Green
Royal Marines exercise “Codename Snake Eyes” circa 1960 documentary– in Color!— by the Central Office of Information for the Admiralty. A great way to spend a half-hour. The exercise involves a...
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Warship Wednesday, August 18, 2021: The Last Sub Killer
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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Cod, Underway
The famed Gato-class fleet boat USS Cod (SS/AGSS/IXSS-224), who earned seven battle stars across the same number of War Patrols against the Japanese Empire, has been a lovingly cared-for museum ship...
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Flying Tigers Remembered in Taipei
The Republic of China Air Force, popularly known outside of Taiwan as the Taiwan Air Force, this month is celebrating two events, the Air Battle Over Hangchow, now commemorated as “Republic of China...
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Farewell, Broadsword/Greenhalgh
Following 16 years of service with the Royal Navy and another 26 with the Marinha do Brasil, the veteran Type 22 frigate HMS Broadsword (F 88)/fragata NAeL Greenhalgh (F 46) was retired on 10 August...
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The Delaware Regiment Holding the Line
Some 245 years ago today: Battle of Long Island by Domenick D’Andrea, via the U.S. Army National Guard’s Heritage Collection At the Battle of Long Island, the actions of the Delaware Regiment kept the...
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53 Years ago Today: Get the Pig, boys…
Does it get any more Vietnam that this image of Marines trying to suppress an enemy sniper, 30 August 1968? “Firepower: Lance Corporal Harry J. Howell (left) 20, (McKenzie, Alabama) and Private First...
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One Fine Greyhound
Via the USS Kid Veterans Museum: USS KIDD (DD-661) at rest in her cradle in downtown Baton Rouge, LA, USA, where she now serves as a museum — August 2021 (Photo copyright Hunter Svetanics; used by...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 1st, 2021: Fortunate Son, the Army Flat Top Edition
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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Western Approaches Scheme Sails Again
The early flight River-class offshore patrol vessel HMS Severn (P282) was decommissioned in 2017 after a planned 15-year career with the Fishery Protection Squadron in the UK’s home waters, but the...
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Lurking Around the Bones of CV-67
Via COMNAVSURFLANT: Sailors from pre-commissioning unit John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) tour decommissioned ship USS John F. Kennedy (CVA-67) currently moored at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Sailors from CVN...
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A Splash of Color in a Sea of Doughboy Brown
American Expeditionary Forces Distinctive Cloth Insignia Chart. (NAID 31491070), Insignia Charts, 1917-1918, RG 120 For reference, on 6 April 1917, when the U.S. declared war against Imperial...
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McHenry (or Derna) Flag at the Golden Gate
SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 11, 2021) Sailors aboard USS Tripoli (LHA 7) man the rails as the America-class amphibious assault ship prepares to pull into San Francisco for an annual Defense Support of Civil...
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Buffalo Soldiers Remembered at West Point
Lost in the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 remembrances over the weekend was a small ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy where Gen. (Ret.) Vincent K. Brooks presided over the dedication of a monument...
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