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Warship Wednesday, March 26, 2025: First of 65
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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Keepers of the Sparks
Original caption: “Signal Corps activities at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Field telephone and switchboard operators in action during maneuvers, 1930.” Note the badge of the 51st Signal Battalion on the...
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Warship Wednesday, April 9, 2025: First of a Long Line
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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Warship Wednesday, April 23, 2025: The Seas are Alive…with the sound of...
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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Nantucket Hydroaeroplanes
26 April 1918. Original Caption: “Naval hydroaeroplanes visit Nantucket. One of the four naval hydroaeroplanes which visited Nantucket to assist in the third Liberty Loan campaign carried on there by...
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The Everlasting Jiggs
It happened 95 years ago today. Rockwell Field, near Coronado, California, 29 April 1930. Hollywood actresses Winnie Lightner, 31, and Irene Delroy, 29, clown for the camera as Lt. (later Maj. Gen.)...
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Connie, is that you?
So, I spent last week bumming around Connecticut getting some cool behind-the-scenes stuff at Colt Firearms. Part of this involved visiting the State Archives and Library, which has a ton of...
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The Tsar’s Finest
It happened 110 years ago today. Here we see the submarine Bars (Snow Leopard), the first of a class of 24 planned boats for the Imperial Russian Navy, after being launched on 2 June 1915 at the Baltic...
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Warship Wednesday, June 11, 2025: Germans to the front!
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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Warship Wednesday, July 2, 2025: Lost Bird of the Baltic
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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