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Bon voyage et bon chance, Jacques Perrin
Born during the German occupation, Jacques André Simonet came from a Paris theatre family– he made his first uncredited film appearance at age five. Typically credited as Jacques Perrin, he was a part...
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Montreal with a Bone
In the great image below, recently released by the Royal Canadian Navy, you see the 5,000-ton Halifax-class patrol frigate HMCS Montréal (FFH 336) flanked by her embarked CH-148 Cyclone helicopter...
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Hussars of the Andes
Tracing its organization back to 1810, Regimiento de Caballería N°3 “Húsares” of the Chilean army is one of the few horse-mounted cavalry units in the world. And yes, they used to be comparable to...
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80 Years Ago Today: Hornet and Mosquitos
The floating “Shangri-La,” the Yorktown-class carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) arrives at Pearl Harbor directly after the Doolittle Raid on Japan, 30 April 1942. Her harbor escorts, a pair of early 77-foot...
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Vale, James Bama
A chronicler of Western subjects by way of the Empire State, James Elliott Bama was born in Washington Heights, New York, in 1926. Following a stint in the USAAF during WWII as a mechanic, mural...
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Hamilton to Bertholf
Check out this great view of Coast Guard Island in Alameda, taken 30 years ago this month, showing five immaculate USCG high endurance cutters: USCGC Boutwell (WPG-719; WHEC-719) in the foreground;...
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Happy 500th, Marinen!
Tracing its lineage to that time the scrappy hövitsman Gustav Eriksson (later Gustav I, later Gustav Vasa) purchased a dozen ships from the Hanseatic town of Lübeck for the princely sum of 7,600 marks...
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Warship Wednesday, May 11, 2022: The Dirty D
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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If you ever wanted your own Spitfire
Looking for a Merlin-powered 1943 Supermarine Spitfire IX with just 10 hours on it since a complete zero time restoration? Well, looks like one just popped up. Photo credit: Darren Mottram: Aviation...
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Schneller Adler, Guest Starring the Kings!
Last week some 200 German marines from the Seebataillon were on maneuvers for a major non-combatant evacuation exercise, Schneller Adler, or Swift Eagle. Together with the Dutch Corps Mariniers,...
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Making like 1914
Recently seen in London, via the Ministry of Defence, HQ Household Troops: In a series of stunning photos which could have been taken at the turn of the 20th century, the horses and riders of the...
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Ghost Riders and the regular crew
A mix of beautiful full-color A-4 Skyhawks of Attack Carrier Air Wing 21 (CVW-21– NP tail code) are parked on the flight deck of the modified Essex-class attack aircraft carrier (and Warship Wednesday...
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A Salute to Telesforo Trinidad
One of the few enduring U.S. Naval ship naming conventions is to honor heroic Sailors and officers (as well as the occasional Marine) by bestowing their names on destroyers. With the Burke-class...
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Just DesRon 20 Showing Off
A stack of brand-new Farragut-class destroyers of Destroyer Squadron Twenty (DesRon20) executing a turn on a bright summer day. Leading the column is USS Farragut (DD-348), followed by USS Dewey...
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Remember Today
It isn’t about the 1,000 sales emails you get this weekend. “So Many Graves” Arlington National Cemetery, 1995, by Army Artist Sieger Hartgers When tomorrow starts without me And I’m not here to...
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Warship Wednesday, June 1, 2022: Old Amsterdam in New Amsterdam
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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50 Years Ago: Supersonic ‘Guns’ Kill
2 June 1972: USAF Major Philip W. “Hands” Handley, 32nd TFS “Wolfhounds,” grabbed the record for the highest speed air-to-air gun kill in the history of aerial combat, smoking an enemy (NVAF) MiG-19...
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Welcome Back, 11th Abn Div
Early last month, U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth announced that U.S. Army Alaska– generally consisting of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne) “Spartan” and 1st Stryker Brigade...
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Welcome USS Columbia, err, PCU District of Columbia I mean
General Dynamics Electric Boat conducted a keel-laying ceremony for the first Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, USS Columbia (SSBN 826) at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, over the weekend....
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Warship Wednesday, June 8, 2022: The Ship Behind the Ships Behind the Torpedoes
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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