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Warship Wednesday, July 20, 2022: Four Stacker Convoy King
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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Nightmare of the Papuan Jungle
This week marks 80 years since the start of the hell that was the Kokoda Campaign. On the night of 21 July 1942, Japanese forces of the South Seas Detachment landed on the northern beaches of Papua at...
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A Night Raid
“In this charcoal sketch by H.J. Mowat, six Canadians leave the trenches to go on a raid. Given the apparent absence of sandbags, they are possibly exiting from an advanced listening post. Under the...
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Sprucan Desert Shield Watercolors
While assigned to the Middle East Force from September to December 1990, the Pascagoula-built Spruance-class destroyer USS O’Brien (DD-975) participated in maritime interdiction as part of Operation...
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What a Difference a Slow Parachute Makes
The below image: U.S. Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sep) and Italian Paracadutisti from Brigata “Folgore” conduct an airborne operation from a USAF C-17 Globemaster III in Pordenone,...
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Assiniboine takes a scalp
Some 80 years ago today, on 6 August 1942, the Royal Canadian Navy’s C-class destroyer leader HMCS Assiniboine (I18) turned herself into a knife to slice up a German sausage in the form of a U-boat...
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The Worst Night in U.S. Navy history at 80
USS Quincy (CA-39) photographed from a Japanese cruiser during the Battle of Savo Island, off Guadalcanal, 9 August 1942. Quincy, seen here burning and illuminated by Japanese searchlights, was sunk...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022: Savo Pig Boat Avenger
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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Admiralty to stop printing paper nautical charts after 227 years.
The UKHO, which assumed the role of printing Admiralty charts some time ago and has some 3,500 such nautical works of art on file, recently announced they are going digital-only, because why worry...
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80 Years Ago: Welcome to the Fleet, Big Al
Ordered on April Fool’s Day 1939 from Norfolk Navy Yard, at a time when Czeechlovakia had ceased to exist and Poland was looking to their borders, Battleship No. 60 would be the final...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022: The Final Figurehead
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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Avenger down der periscope
Paintings of Naval Aviation during World War II: Abbott Collection. #98: “The Kill” Artwork by Robert Benney. “In this dramatic presentation of sea-sky battle, a Grumman Avenger torpedo bomber, bomb...
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Into the Lion’s Den
50 years ago today. Haiphong Harbor, 27 August 1972: In the last naval battle of the Vietnam War and the last time that American surface ships would close within mutal range of enemy shore batteries...
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CVN-80 Moves Forward
In 1775, the Continental Navy commissioned a sloop of war and dubbed her Enterprise. A second schooner followed in 1776 with the same name, one so good you had to see it twice on the Naval List. In...
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Ulster Glider Marksman
80 Years Ago: 29 August 1942. A sniper with British glider troops. He was with the 1st Battalion, The Ulster Rifles, 1st Airborne Division. (By War Office official photographer LT Spender. Imperial...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022: The Well-Traveled Admiral
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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Travel!
Happy Labor Day! Enjoy your time off if you have it. I will! Poster, by Lou Nolan, C. 1960, depicting the FRAM’d World War II-era Fletcher-class destroyer USS Miller (DD-535), in a Cold War-era Asian...
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Shilling’s photo ‘Hawk
What a great original 80-year-old color photo of the American Volunteer Group “Flying Tigers” posing on one very special aircraft. A group of AVG pilots poses for the camera. Erik Shilling is on the...
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A Good Pilot in a Capable Plane Goes a Long Way
On this day: 70 years ago (September 10, 1952), Captain Jesse Gregory Folmar (MCSN: 0-26438), from the “Checkerboards” of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 312 of the jeep carrier USS Sicily (CVE-118),...
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And the guns rang out
Traditional gun salutes honoring the late Queen Elizabeth rang out across the United Kingdom on Friday “and at saluting stations at home and abroad as the world watched on and mourned her loss.” The...
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