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100 years ago today: Spandaus-a-go-go
Can you say, Maschinengewehr? “Two German Machine Guns at Main Advance Salvage Dump of the 77th Division. These guns, which have been put in order by the French, will be used to fire back captured...
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The Brits really dug camo for their snipers
Common among snipers the world over today, the ghillie suit or bush suit, traces its origin to Scottish gamekeepers with a Scotland-raised yeoman regiment, the Lovat Scouts, using them for the first...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017: The Potemkin’s little red brother
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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Crank em out
Here we see a beautiful example of perhaps the best .45-70 chambered Gatling design, the Colt-produced Model 1890. This wonder, fitted with 10 31-inch octagon barrels, could let those big...
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100 Years ago today, Key West NAS
On this day in 1917 Lt. Stanley Parker made the first Naval flight recorded at Key West. It was in a Curtiss N-9 seaplane, like the one pictured here in Key West, circa 1917-18 (the planes in the back...
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I say, is that a Thornton-Pickard Mk III?
I thought this was great. Australia is conducting their first nationwide firearms amnesty since the great melt-down of 1996 in an effort to get an estimated 300,000+ undocumented guns either on the...
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A lost German in Rwanda
German warships in Africa on the eve of the Great War have always drawn a lot of interest. Everyone knows of the SMS Konigsberg and its last stand on the Rufiji River, the old unprotected...
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Sure, you’ve heard of a sergeant-major, but have you heard of a...
NH 100613 An officer and men of the South Carolina-class battleship USS MICHIGAN (BB-27) landing force prepare to disembark off Vera Cruz, Mexico 22 April 1914 for a rough shore call. The men wear...
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U.S. Mint’s 2018 World War I Centennial Silver Dollar, medals
The United States Mint last week revealed the obverse (heads) and reverse (tails) designs for five silver medals that will be issued in conjunction with the 2018 World War I Centennial Silver Dollar....
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95 years ago today: Good trap, Darb!
An Aeromarine 39B piloted by Chevalier is seen just before it touches down on the flight deck of USS Langley (CV-1) on 26 October 1922 – the first landing aboard an American aircraft carrier. Via...
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Send for the pigeon guy, mon ami
A very serious French soldier of the 141st Regiment with homing pigeons in 1915. According to reports, they played a vital part in the Great War on all side as they provided an extremely reliable way...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017: The Phrygian of the Great North
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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A bit of desert that will always be Scotland
“The graves of two Scottish soldiers are marked by upturned rifles in the sand, North Africa, 5 November 1942,” some 75 years ago this quiet Sunday. Photo by No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit,...
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Greetings, 2018
Yet, I always feel a century or two behind… German sentry welcomes in the new year, 1918. Photo colourised artificially
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018: One of the luckier sugars
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, Jan. 10, 2018: Meiji’s favorite cruiser
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...
View ArticleThose thick metal doo-dads on the front of milsurp rifles
Ian with Forgotten Weapons (aka Gun Jesus) gives the low-down on stacking rods and swivels, for those who don’t know. You’d be surprised how many people do not.
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Team Work Wins!
Here we see “Teamwork Wins!” by Roy Hull Still, from the 1918 U.S. War Department urging production on the Home Front. Photo via National Association of Manufacturers photographs and audiovisual...
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They always have you throw your shit on the ground in the parking lot before...
I give you the London Scottish Regiment, Kit inspection, Dorking. London, 1916: The London Scottish were part-time territorials formed as the London Scottish Rifle Volunteers as part of the old...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018: The wandering Dutchman 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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