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The sweepers Pelican 1917-2007, and no, that is not a bar of soap
The name “Pelican” in honor of the large and rather dopey seabird, has always been carried by a mine warfare vessel in the U.S. Navy. USS PELICAN (AM-27) Caption: With PN-9 #1 on her fantail, after the...
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Warship Wednesday, May 31, 2017: The Swordfish of the Baltic
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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Cape Helles on a summer’s day in 1915
(Photo source – © IWM Q 13340) (Colourised by Royston Leonard from the UK) A British 60 pounder Mk I battery in action on a cliff top at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, possibly in June 1915. The unit might be...
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Montenegro, reporting for duty
The small Balkan country of Montenegro just became the 29th NATO member, despite the howls from a traditional ally, Moscow. Below is the flag raising ceremony, performed by the Honour Guard of...
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Warship Wednesday, June 14, 2017: The newly found enforcer of Dewey’s squadron
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 21, 2017: The Tsar’s everlasting musketeer
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A relic with the ability to induce a shudder
Object 19880274-001, Canadian War Museum http://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1042602/ This early Colt M1911 was used by an individual with the 27th Infantry Battalion (City of Winnipeg),...
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Warship Wednesday, June 28, 2017: The Kansas cruiser, by way of Peru
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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About your grandpa’s old machine gun in the closet…
A Japanese Type 11 light machine gun– Kijiro Nambu’s take on the French 8mm Hotchkiss chambered in 6.5x50mm Arisaka– captured on Kwajalein Atoll in 1944 by American troops. Such guns, if not registered...
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Warship Wednesday, July 5, 2017: HMs cruiser bruiser
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, July 12, 2017: Woodrow’s biggest German
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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Lafayette, we are here
If you are a Francophile, or just plain old French or Creole (here’s to you, Ben and Aaron!), then consider this Happy Bastille Day. In honor of the ceremony in Paris, 190 troops from the U.S. Army,...
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Warship Wednesday, July 19, 2017: The Belgian sword master and his legacy
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 Winchester Pugsley Anti-tank gun
This prototype Winchester shown off by Ian over at Forgotten Weapons dates from 1918, a time when John Browning was working on his .50 BMG round and the Germans had their own giant T-Gewehr 13mm...
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Warship Wednesday, July 26, 2017: Doctor Jekyll and HM’s gunboat
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, Aug 2, 2017: Uncle’s only submersible aircraft carrier
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Happy Birthday Rupert Brooke!
The war poet Rubert Brooke has always been a favorite of mine. So much that my daughter carries “Brooke” as her middle name. He died 23 April 1915, while serving with the Royal Navy in the Aegean...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug 9, 2017: The King’s most curious battlecruiser
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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New skins for an old warrior
When my grandfather joined the National Guard at 17, but before he headed off to war on active duty, he bought a “fighing knife” from a local hardware store as any strapping youth in olive drab needed...
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Apparently in the Ukraine somewhere is a cache of M95 Steyr Mannlichers
The Ukrainian Army is working on uniforms for their Presidential Regiment, a reinforced company/light battalion-sized force detailed with ceremonial guard of honor duties with a secondary detail as...
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