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Vandy 1 Hanging with the Dragonlady
These are just great images, I don’t care who you are. 231127-N-VX009-1006 CHINA LAKE, Calif. (Nov. 27, 2023) An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the “Vampires” of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron...
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Win or die
How about this amazing early color photo (possibly an Autochrome Lumière) showing the combat-tattered banner of the French army’s 37e Régiment D’Infanterie (37e RI) shown resting on two stacks of...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024: Moscow on the Hudson
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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Gotta be quicker than that…
“Escort Carrier HMS Nairana Stalked Unsuccessfully by U-Boat 502, 1 February 1944,” by Charles David Cobb via National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth. Cobb, Charles David; Escort Carrier HMS...
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Baa, Baa .45
While on the ground at the SHOT Show in Las Vegas last month, we came across a Government Issue .45 1911 that looked more at home in the South Pacific in 1943. As part of its Air Aces Series,...
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Warship Wednesday Feb. 14, 2024: La Jeanne
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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Demon in the snow
Just passing on a great image from “The Fearless Fighting I,” museum ship USS Intrepid (CV-11) which had a snow day this week as NYC got socked by its first significant accumulation in more than two...
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Miami in Trinidad
80 years ago today: The Cleveland-class light cruiser USS Miami (CL 89) at Trinidad during her shakedown, 19 February 1944, photographed from heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71). Note her crew at...
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Not a bad looking 40 year old
How about this great image during the magic hour? U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa (WMEC 902) transits the Florida Straits, on Feb. 4, 2024, while supporting Operation Vigilant Sentry. Tampa is...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024: One Unlucky Beauty
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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Juan Sebastián de Elcano Sails on Her 96th Training Cruise
Commissioned in 1927, the Spanish Navy’s 371-foot steel-hulled training barquentine Juan Sebastián de Elcano left Cadiz last month for a regular seven-month cadet cruise, her 96th. The ship is under...
View ArticleAn Hour of Torch TV
The AP Archive continues to impress me with random historical footage they are posting to YouTube. Three recent 25-minute reels hail from the Torch Landings in North Africa in November 1942. Also,...
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Bellissimo
Check out this great image of the Italian Navy’s Mar Grande Naval Station, Taranto, taken on 23 June 2018. The above includes closest to the camera, two Bergamini-class FREMM frigates–Alpino (F 594)...
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‘They don’t like it up ’em’
80 years ago this month, a great period Kodachrome of one Private Alfred Campin, 6th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, while undergoing training in Britain, March 1944. Note his late model No. 4...
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‘I weighed 125 lbs. and never would have survived the rations in a POW Camp…’
What a couple of great period Kodachromes that really put you in the head of an 8th Air Force bombardier in 1944. First, a window view inside the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress bomber “Times A-Wastin'”...
View Article1904-05 Imperial Japanese Army infantry uniforms
Hattori Han has an in-depth impression of the Imperial Japanese Army infantry during the 1904-05 war with the Tsar in Manchuria, a conflict now some 120 years in the rearview. He includes the blue...
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Gallic red and blue
I am always struck by how the French Army of 1870 looked remarkably similar to the French Army of 1914. Observe this French soldier by a cannon on 23 July 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War via Brown...
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The Yin-Yang of Pacific PBY Life
Two shots captured two very different moments in time some 80 years ago this month. First, I give you the typical image when someone says, “PBY Catalina ‘Somewhere in the Pacific.” U.S. Navy mechanics...
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Catching up on the paper with the lads
St. Patrick’s Day in a dugout, 80 years ago today, the official caption: “Men of the 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers read ‘Ireland’s Saturday Night’, a Belfast newspaper, in their foxhole in the...
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‘Ghost Army’ Gets its Due
The Ghost Army Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony, Via the U.S. House of Representatives: Three surviving members of the Ghost Army, the top-secret WWII units that used creative deception to fool the...
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