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Transferring bases, 1921 style
From the Old Guard Museum: On 26 September 1921, the regulars of the 3d Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) set out for their newly assigned post– Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Due to the post-World War I...
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Trophies via Feisal
Here we see a Short-Magazine Lee-Enfield in .303 British that had a very curious history. It was issued to a member of the Reserve/1st Garrison Battalion, Essex Regiment (formed in 1881 from the...
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Not every kukri-armed soldier was a Gurkha
The kukri is a traditional Nepalese weapon. It is most commonly associated with the Gurkha units serving with the Indian or British armies. However it was used, on a less official basis, by other...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 2: From Jutland to Boston and everywhere in between
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 Nov. 9: The hardworking white hull from Beantown
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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Hell for leather
The Great War saw the U.S. Army balloon from 100,000 regulars who were spending most of their time in the Philippines and along the border with Mexico, to a modern fighting force of nearly 3 million–...
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Getting in sync
One of the key developments in World War I aerial combat was the synchronizing gear that allowed machine guns to be fired through the prop in front of the pilot without shooting said prop. The gun...
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Warship Wednesday Nov. 30, 2016: The Almirante and her Yankee (and Chilean)...
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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The nicest factory Nagant revolver, ever
Via RIA This extremely fine M1895 Nagant revolver, #7644, was produced at the Tula Arsenal in 1912 and has been extensively decorated in a koftgari/damascene style with extensive floral scroll patterns...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 7, 2016: The eclipsing old bird of Battleship Row
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 (on a Thursday!): The dazzling President of the Royal Navy
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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Of a goat and a mystery rifle
I came across this reddit picture of an unidentified goat hunter (“found in 1920’s collection”) showing a proud hunter with a hard-to-get American Mountain goat. The rifle in the grainy photo is...
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Old school master key
Here we see a 12 gauge Winchester Model 1897 shotgun as modified for military service then subsequently whittled down sometime later. This pump-action smoothbore was reportedly utilized by a Florida...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 21, 2017: The pirate chaser of Lake Michigan
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 Dec. 28, 2017: Mexico’s mighty (lonely) battleship
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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Welcome aboard, Spuds
Happy New Year! On this day in 1914, Lt. Theodore Gordon Ellyson, (USNA 1905), better known to his friends as Spud, was named Naval Aviator Number One. After service on a number of battleships and...
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Springfield Armory still has 2/3rds of the first M1917 rifles
Photo: Springfield Armory National Historic Site The 30.06 caliber Model 1917 Enfield was developed from the .303 British Pattern 1914 (P.14) rifle. Currently on the Springfield Armory museum...
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Warship Wednesday January 11, 2017: Yugoslavia’s second brief battleship
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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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Franz Schmidt
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sundays (when I feel like working), I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers...
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Just hanging out around Surrey, waiting to cross the Channel
(Photo/text via Range Days in France) Scots Guardsman circa 1914/5 at Caterham depot. It shows some great detail. He is armed with an SMLE Mk I with its associated P1907 curved Quillion bayonet. He is...
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