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Carrier Gunnery
How about these great shots, taken 7 August 1976 over NAS North Island, California, of the new class-leading big deck phib USS Tarawa (LHA 1), and the carriers USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and USS...
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Fighting Bats
“Training to Fight at Night” at Naval Air Station, Vero Beach, Florida, January 1945. Official U.S. Navy photograph, 80-G-323891, now in the collections of the National Archives. Starting in 1953 and...
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Looking back on the XM204 Swamp Howitzer
Mark Struve over at the U.S. Army Sustainment Command delves into the time the Army wanted a pair of 105mm and 155mm howitzers capable of being used in swampy ground that was the consistency of bubble...
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What amazing times…
100 years ago this month. Drawing of the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1) from the January 1925 issue of The National Geographic Magazine. With a 25-man crew, the airship was designed to carry a half-dozen .30...
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The Danes want Joseph Conrad Back
Built in 1882 by Burmeister & Wain, København, specifically for the Stiftelsen Georg Stages Minde foundation (which is still around) to be employed as a sailing schoolship, the 111-foot long, 400...
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Gunfighter!
Sailors work on NP-441 (BuNo 147011), a Vought F-8C Crusader (originally F8U), aboard the Essex-class carrier USS Hancock (CVA 19) during the ship’s 1965 West Pac deployment to Vietnam. Note the open...
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Getting Greasy
Just 40 years ago this week. Official caption: “Private First Class (PFC) Jose Ledoux-Garcia of Company C, 5th Battalion, 77th Armor, guards his M60A3 main battle tank during Central Guardian, a phase...
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Brown Water C-rat Can Assist
Official caption: “Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. US Navy Gunner’s Mate Third Class Barry Johnson returns enemy fire with the M-60 machine gun on board his US Navy River Patrol Boat (PBR). The...
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Floating Dispensary
Some 70 years ago. With her 5″/38 hood ornament up front, the white-hulled 255-foot Oswego-class USCGC Klamath (WPG-66, later WHEC-66) is shown winning hearts and minds while on her inaugural Being...
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Cold Canuks
80 years ago today. Infantrymen of the French-Canadian Régiment de la Chaudière, who are wearing British winter camouflage clothing, on patrol, Bergendal, Netherlands, 24 January 1945. This is either...
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Floating History
Great comparison of old vs. new, bookends of the service, so to speak. Here we see the 210-foot Reliance class USCGC Venturous (WMEC 625), outboard of the 418-foot Legend (Bertholf) class USCGC...
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Warwickshire Cuckoos
Some 85 years ago this week, the regulars of 2 Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, part of the 2nd Infantry Division, British Expeditionary Force, drill in their snow-covered trench near...
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The Flotsam of History
In early February 1807, in Prussian Silesia, French Field Marshal Michel Ney’s cavalry clashed with mounted elements of Russian Lt. Gen. Karl Gustav von Baggovut’s column in the snow outside of the...
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Baptism for the American Ski Troops
Some 80 years ago this month, members of the intelligence and reconnaissance (I&R) platoon, 86th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division, logged the first documented combat use of ski...
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Glass Sherman
You think you are cold! 80 years ago today: 1st February 1945 – Fifth Army, Poretta Area, Italy. A Fifth Army M4 Sherman medium tank of the U.S. 751st Tank Battalion is inclined to use as an ersatz...
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Crescent City Downtime
Living just an hour from New Orleans, the wife and I tend to day trip it frequently and have a list of haunts we stop in at. Last weekend, being great weather (60-70 degrees, unlimited visibility), in...
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Sydney’s Beauty
The second HMAS Sydney was a modified Leander class light cruiser that began life as the Royal Navy’s HMS Phaeton on 8 July 1933. Relegated to local patrols in the Pacific in 1939, she only headed...
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Strangers in a Strange Land
Some 110 years ago this month, a surreal scene: The 19th Lancers (Fane’s Horse) of the Indian Cavalry Corps, on the march in the snow, Northern France, February 1915. The unit traced its lineage to...
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Black Widow On Deck
80 years ago this week, a USAAF 421st Night Fighter Squadron Northrop P-61B-20-NO Black Widow (SN 43-8317) seen landing at recently liberated and expanded Puerto Princesa Airfield, Tacloban, Leyte, 8...
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Bazooka Joes
80 years ago this week. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment. Two soldiers of an M9 2.36-inch bazooka section blow out a Japanese pillbox at Heart Point, on Corregidor Island, Philippines on or around 19...
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