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Zap!
Official caption: “Sailors shoot a Mark 38 25mm machine gun during a live-fire exercise on the fantail of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in the Pacific Ocean, Oct. 14, 2024. Nimitz is...
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The Last Hurrah of The Third Republic’s Tanks
When the Germans swept into France in May 1940, the Gallic country had over 3,200 tanks on hand, by far besting the invading forces which only had about 2,400 Panzers they brought to the party....
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Foxtrot Zulu Milkshake
The old ways: 040303-N-6842R-025 Key West, Fla. (Mar. 3, 2004) Ð Lt. Allen Karlson, a student pilot assigned to the ÒTigersÓ of Training Squadron Nine (VT-9), with instructor Cdr. Joe Kerstiens...
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Crosshairs
80 years ago today. Leyte Operation, October 1944. The day of the first noted use of kamikaze. Official Wartime caption: “The Australian heavy cruisers HMAS Shropshire (left) and Australia (right),...
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A Forest of Doomed Lattice
105 years ago today. Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania. 22 October 1919. Obsolete “pre-dreadnought” type battleships in the Reserve Basin almost a year after the conclusion of the Great War,...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 23, 2024: A Tough Little Wolf
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday to 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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Goodbye, MK 75: A 50 Year Love-Hate Story
A vintage deck gun system that was once a staple of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard has quietly fired its final shots. Designed by the famed munitions firm of OTO Melara of La Spezia, Italy, and...
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Three Sisters
How about this striking night shot of a recent transfer of fuel (RAS) from the Norwegian tanker and SNMG1 flagship HMoMS Maud (A530) to the British Type 23 frigate HMS Portland (F79) from the group of...
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Have (or know) of an old Navy plaque?
Signal boost for CAPT Greg Thomas (Ret) who is placing plaques in the Doherty HS Navy JROTC’s “Hall of Honor.” They have currently saved 90 unwanted plaques, many bought by Thomas off eBay. They have...
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Dress Up Time: SC-449 Kamikaze Bait
Happy Halloween. This seems like a great time to mention when a 110-foot subchaser dressed up like a 495-foot Bogue-class escort carrier some 80 years ago. Yup, we are talking about Operation Swiss...
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Buccs over Aden
Some 57 years ago this month. Aden Emergency. The flight deck of the 54,000-ton Audacious-class aircraft carrier HMS Eagle (R 05) was photographed as part of Task Force 945 in the Gulf of Aden during...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024: The Ones That Got Away
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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Island Hopping
80 years ago this week. 9 November 1944. Official wartime caption: “Jet-Propelled Take-off for Mariner, South Pacific – As the massive, bi-motored Martin mariner rises into the air, streams of smoke...
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Boxer Walkaround
With a big boxing match in the news today, how about the biggest Boxer we care about here on the blog, recently seen at play in the historically significant Tsushima Strait. We’re talking about the...
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What a Difference 100 Years Makes
A century ago. Official period caption: “U.S. Aeroplane Carrier Langley in Gaillard Cut, Panama Canal, Nov 16, 1924.” National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo. NARA Identifier:...
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The Associated Press continues to put up archived footage from yesteryear online and some of it is striking. These recently caught my eye. An 11-minute German training video from 1940 showing V1 and...
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Cold over Wintershaven
80 years ago today: “A formation of 15th Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses fly through flak-filled sky en route to attack the Wintershaven oil storage facilities at Vienna, on 19 November 1944.”...
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Hidden Roadside Gem– and its Amazing guns
Tucked along the roadside in Polson, Montana is one of the largest collections of American history in the country – and I got lost there for a day this summer. Gil and Joanne Mangels founded the...
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Help the Sniper Monuments!
Both the Army’s USAMU program and the Marines’ (recently retired) Scout Sniper program seek to have memorials produced. The Civilian Marksmanship Program is holding a special auction of a highly...
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Feet Wet during Rang Dong
Some 57 years ago this week. 21 November 1967, near Cat Lai, Republic of Vietnam. Official caption: PFC Fred L. Greenleaf, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 199th Light Infantry Brigade...
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