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119,000-ton unofficial carrier four-pack
So the recent biannual Talisman Saber 2023 exercise had a supercarrier in attendance, at least partially: the forward-deployed (to Japan) Nimitz-class USS Ronald Reagan and her strike group. However,...
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Full Color Ozzie Growler
I do love full-color livery on warbirds. Check out this bad boy coming in to refuel. Official caption: A Royal Australian Air Force Boeing E/A-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft, #306 (Bu No....
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Dragoon Jeep Carriers IN COLOR!
Check out this beautiful original Kodachrome. Official caption: “Southern France Invasion, August 1944. USS Kasaan Bay (CVE-69) seen through signal flags of USS Tulagi (CVE-72), on ‘D-Day’ off...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023: Copenhagen’s Finest
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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Rare Back Bay Dolphin
The Harrison County (Mississippi) Library System’s Local History and Genealogy Department recently posted this great snapshot from the Joe Scholtes Collection, showing the old U.S. Coast Guard Air...
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Sunshine Beach Crusing
How about these eye-catchers. Also, that’s a tough curve to keep a formation like that, with the Rhino holding back toward stall speed while the Texan is pushing those RPMs to lead. Official caption:...
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Swung by Ingalls on Sunday…
Visited my old Pascagoula stomping grounds at “The Point,” which juts out into the Pascagoula River towards Singing River Island (the old NAVSTA Pascagoula) and is framed by the WWII-era Ingalls East...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023: The Last Violet
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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Death of a U-boat, Williams vs Maus
Some 80 years ago this week, in the North Atlantic west of the Canary Islands, the German Type IXC/40 U-boat, U-185 (Kptlt. August Maus), with 31 waterlogged survivors of the lost U-604 aboard, met...
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Vigilante at 65
31 August 1958 saw the first flight, with North American Aviation test pilot Richard Wenzel at the stick, of the No.1 prototype North American XA3J-1, eventually to be known as the A-5 Vigilante. The...
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Faking it with MTBRon 13
The campaign to evict the Japanese from the Aleutians saw one of the most motley assemblages of troops and vessels ever put together. This was because everything even remotely “top shelf” was needed...
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Honneur à l’Ancien
40 years ago: A throwback to the old Le Poilu (“the hairy one”) of Great War frame is this portrait of a Légionnaire of the 1er Régiment Etranger de Cavalerie (1 REC) at the French military’s Biltine...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023: Of Mustaches, Stars, and Condemned Cannons
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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Plastering Charleston, 160 years ago
Reportedly the oldest naval combat photos that can be definitively dated. Taken from Fort Sumter by George Cook on 8 September 1863, it shows the 18-gunned steam-powered wooden-hulled broadside...
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Two Great War U-boats Found, Still on Eternal Patrol
A group of wreck hunters, working off the Belgian coast, have discovered a pair of German U-boats that have been lost since World War I. The wrecks include the Kriegsmarine’s German Type U 5 submarine...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023: Mud Hen Regulus Pitcher
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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The Rockets Red Glare…
On the morning of 14 September 1814, it became obvious to Admiral of the Blue, Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane, Commander-in-Chief, North American Station, that the failed 25-hour bombardment of Fort...
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Brit Bent Wings over Brunswick
80 Years Ago: Early Vought “Corsair Mk I” fighters, of the British Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm fly in formation, during training for their pilots in the United States, September 1943. Planes are...
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Down Courageous
A stirring depiction of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier, HMS Courageous (50), after being torpedoed by German submarine KMS U-29 under Kptlt. Otto Schuhart, on 17 September 1939, some 84 years ago...
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C-130J Invasion Stripes
Invasion stripes on C-47 SN 43-30652, circa September 1944, of the 36th Troop Carrier Squadron during Operation Market Garden First off: Happy 76th Birthday, USAF. Now, the news. A half-dozen advanced...
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