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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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Marianas Lightning Storm
Exercise Cope North 2025 has seen at least four different F-35 fifth-gen fighter operators conducting combined operations from Guam. These include U.S. Air Force, Royal Australian Air Force No. 75...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025: Scary Freddy
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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Hr.Ms. K XI, found
Dutch Onderzeeboot Hr.Ms. K XI at Satonda, Nederlands-Indië, March 1931. She was the class leader of a trio of 218-foot 800-ton “colonial” submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy, so-called as they...
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Got a light, bub?
80 years ago today. One of the most iconic images from Operation Detachment. Marine Private First Class Wilfred Voegeli, of Wichita, Kansas, armed with a flame thrower, takes a break to light up his...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025: Walking the Beat
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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Powell, Awash
80 years ago today, on 27 February 1945, the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) was seen in a series of period Kodachromes during a very wet replenishment near Japan alongside the fast...
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Amerigo Vespucci Completes her Grande Equipaggio
The “most beautiful ship in the world” has arrived back home. The Italian Navy’s 90-year-old training ship Amerigo Vespucci arrived in Trieste from her Grande Equipaggio tour on 1 March 2025, welcomed...
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Wurm Swim
An unusual sight some 80 years ago this month. Likely on the Wurm River system near recently captured Aachen, Germany, March 1945, we see a great period original Kodachrome capturing U.S. Army...
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Warship Wednesday, March 12, 2025: Spymaster Farm
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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Tay Ninh Umbrellas
March 1963. Static line ARVN paratroopers jump from USAF Fairchild C-123 Providers of the 346th Troop Carrier Squadron (Assault) during Operation Phi Hoa II, a tactical air-ground envelopment strike...
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Zouaves and surfboats!
From Osprey’s upcoming title, American Civil War Amphibious Tactics, by Ron Field, illustrated by Steve Noon: Hawkins’ Zouaves At Hatteras Inlet, August 28, 1861 Elements of the 9th New York Infantry,...
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Achilles and the Leopard
“Destruction of the German Raider Leopard by HMS Achilles and the HMS Dundee,” by maritime artist William Lionel Wyllie. IWM collection Art.IWM ART 15814 The piece portrays the “Action of March 17,...
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Irish Tommies in British Army finally get the local nod
“For the Queen and old Ireland”, circa 1900 by Frank T Copnall, depicts the Irish soldier. NAM. 1973-12-55-1 A new museum is to be established to tell the story of Irish soldiers in the British Army...
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