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Warship Wednesday June 10, 2015: The first Red Castle
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Full House, comrade, naval infantry over rocket troops
And now for something different, we have Russian military playing cards. These are just great. More over at English Russia
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Rodney redux
We’ve covered the Nelson-class battleship HMS Rodney (pennant number 29) in past Warship Wednesdays, and she is a remarkable design. Well armed and armored but slow (just 23 knots) as a result of...
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13.5 acres of Rock and Roll
4283 × 2422 click to bigup Three Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), and USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) are pierside at Naval Air Station North Island....
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Warship Wednesday June 17, 2015: Big Paul
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Lady Sara
US Marine Corps Vought O2U-2 Corsair aircraft preparing to land on Saratoga, circa 1930Source United States Navy Naval History and Heritage CommandIdentification Code NH 94899 The USS Saratoga (CV-3)...
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The humble Seagull
SOC Seagull aircraft just launched from USS Augusta’s catapult, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Jun 1942. Note the two bombs carried underwing. In 1933, with aircraft carriers few and far between,...
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Semper Paratus as seen through WWII
During WWII, the Coast Guard bloomed from under 20,000 to more than a quarter million at its height in June 1944. At that time, the service contained 9,874 commissioned officers, 3,291 warrant officers...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Alphonse de Neuville
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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Looking for your 1916 Mad Max Ride?
The below sold for $72,000 at auction last weekend in the UK. Which is actually a bargain as it is one of the last surviving WWI-era British Matchless motorcycles complete with a Vickers machine gun...
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Warship Wednesday June 24, 2015: The Cursed Lion from Brazil
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Warship Wednesday June 24, 2015: The hard times of a peacetime tin can
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Happy Independence Day (weekend), 1776 flashback
George Washington Reading the Declaration of Independence to the Troops by Mort Kunstler. Stay safe out there this weekend!
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Combat Gallery Sunday: We have the Mort, Part VI
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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Perry’s, out
The last Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate deployment ended on Sunday when USS Kauffman (FFG-59) returned to Naval Station Norfolk, Va. following six months in U.S. Southern Command last week, ending...
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Warship Wednesday July 15, 2015: The Great War’s Granite State
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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More on the Semmes gun
Back in June I covered the famous raider CSS Alabama which, under the command of the Pirate of the Confederacy, Capt. (later Admiral/Brig. Gen.) Raphael Semmes, CSN (USN, resigned), captured an amazing...
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Intrepid meets Waterworld
Click to big up Pretty neat depiction of USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11) as a fisher-village in a post-apocalyptic scenario by zsolti65 on Deviant Art Known as the “Fighting I,” Intrepid was laid down...
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Of British officers and top break revolvers
The Webley and Enfield series of top-break .455 and .38/200 wheelguns were the standard issue British officer’s kit from the 1880s through the early 1960s when they were finally replaced by the...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Tom W. Freeman
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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