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Warship Wednesday, Feb.8, 2018: Roll Tide, Vol. 4ish
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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Yours for Democracy…
A very proud Doughboy, and recent college graduate, armed with a brand new Enfield M1917 30.06 rifle and ready to go “Over There.” The back of this photo was signed “Forrest G. Johnson, Yours for...
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More than 10,000 Ordnance QF 18-pounder MkI&II field guns were made by Armstrong, Vickers and the Royal Arsenal between 1903 and 1940 until they were phased out by the 25-pounder, though they...
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Emilie…
Description: Breech of a large Naval Gun. Photographed on board a battleship, circa 1913. The ship is probably USS Rhode Island (Battleship # 17), and the gun is presumably an 8/45 or 12/45. Note the...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018: The Saint and the Terror
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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One of Lawrence of Arabia’s hoglegs surfaces
The UK’s National Army Museum recently announced they have received a historic revolver tied to an iconic British adventurer from World War I. The revolver, which looks to be an early Smith &...
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The Russians never through anything away
You know the 100th anniversary this month of the “glorious Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army” would showcase a bunch of vintage Soviet hardware, still in remarkable condition. The Russian Ministry of...
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How to make friends and incinerate people, 100 years ago today
American soldiers wearing captured German “donut” flame throwers, Ménil-la-Tour, France, 6 March 1918, described as “liquid fire machines” recovered from No Man’s Land. Front view… The device, dubbed...
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100 years ago today: Second-hand Artillery Luger
“167th Infantry, 2nd Battalion, Co. F. –Cpl Howard Thompson holding pistol of German whom Sgt James W. White killed in No Man’s Land with the butt of his pistol. A patrol of 5 men met 10 Germans in No...
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Never know what is stored in an old cabinet
Behold: the forgotten Great War-era colors of the 116th Inf Rgt: Via VA National Guard While conducting an inventory of a seldom-used storage compartment at the Virginia War Museum in Newport News,...
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Provisioning a warship
“This drawing gives a splendid idea of the hugeness of the task of keeping a warship fighting trim. It represents the food for the officers and the men only. The food for the guns is, of course,...
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the most important, and least remembered...
The Battle of Moreuil Wood on March 30, 1918, is captured in the painting “Charge of Flowerdew’s Squadron” by Sir Alfred Munnings via the Canadian War Museum: UNDATED — Undated handout photo of Alfred...
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Fit for a Kingsman
All photos Chris Eger, except where noted The folding clasp knife, aka jackknife, aka pocketknife, aka penknife, aka peasant knife, et. al, in military ancillary use dates back to the Roman Legions as...
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The Cricket Ball grenade
This bad boy seemed like a good idea at the time it was invented, but the lengthy fuze and the fact that it was thrown to some of the most capable hobby bowlers in Thrace gave it an Achilles heel. From...
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Men of action in coffee-stained crackerjacks, 104 years ago today
These are not the kind of guys you want to pick a fight with. NHHC NH 100612 Ensign Schuyler F. Heim and other members of the landing party from the South Carolina-class battleship USS Michigan (BB-27)...
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Warship Wednesday, April 25, 2018: Big Vincent and the seagoing pyro party
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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Yup, that’s possum
Here we see a busby for officers in the 2nd Life Hussar Regiment “Königin Viktoria von Preußen” No. 2. The regiment was garrisoned in Danzig-Langfuhr and was part of the XVII. Army Corps in Danzig...
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Warship Wednesday, May 2, 2018: The 1,000-ton consular insurance policy
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 Dreyse and Lignose
Inspector Gereon Rath in Babylon Berlin So I have been watching Babylon Berlin, a noir-style crime drama set in (go figure) Berlin during the Weimar-era based on the novels by Volker Kutscher. While it...
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With uniforms this snazzy, how could they lose?
The below image shows a great selection of Soldiers of various units of the polyglot Austro-Hungarian army in 1914 (click to big up). Source: From left to right: Austrian Landwehr ulan cavalrymen,...
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