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The Big I gets a well-deserved rest, 120 years ago today
Here we see America’s first seagoing battleship, USS Iowa (BB-4) entering dry dock September 1, 1898, for peacetime maintenance and repair shortly after her first wartime service. You see hostilities...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept 5, 2018: Der Piratenjäger
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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Yankees medics show ‘Primum non nocere’ 100 years ago today
A group of wounded German Army prisoners receiving medical attention at first aid station of U.S. 103rd and 104th Ambulance Companies (Field Hospital), attached to the 26th “Yankee” Division’s 101st...
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The man behind the 1911 poster
One of the most iconic images of the M1911 is the Great War recruiting painting “First to Fight” by James Montgomery Flagg. Flagg’s portrait, made from a sitting by then-U.S. Marine Capt. Ross Erastus...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: Sons of Empire
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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Great War coastal grave robberies made right
Authorities in the UK are getting it done when it comes to those illegally salvaging trophies from war graves offshore. Last month, the bell of the SS Mendi was presented to the President of South...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept, 19, 2018: The well-traveled Sea Otter
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 ArticleHow to paint Tiger tanks, correctly
The Tank Museum at Bovington had a couple of rare German WWII tanks– an early pre-production Tiger and a Jagdtiger– that need to be repainted from their incorrect schemes to a more appropriate...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018: The last of the Royal Navy’s peculiar may bugs
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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100 years ago today, a man from Wichita
Here we see “The Highest Possible Courage,” by John D. Shaw, courtesy of the U.S. National Guard Bureau. It depicts the last moments of 2LT Erwin Russell Bleckley, the first of three National Guard...
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The Doughboy knuckle-sandwich
Via the U.S. Army Ordnance Training and Heritage Center: This Model 1918 Mark I trench knife was made in France by Au Lion in 1918 for use by US troops during World War I. The US also produced these...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018: One of the most unsung Boxers in the ring
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: A Dear Visit
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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97 years ago today: Dewey’s flagship, bringing home the saddest casualty back...
A colorized image of the Unknown Soldier’s casket being carried off of OLYMPIA, which is featured in the background. Via Independence Seaport Museum. You can see Gen. Blackjack Pershing to the right,...
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The buck stops here
With the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War I looming, it is only fitting that we take a look at the gun carried by the only President to see combat in the conflict. While the former...
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The night the lamps came back on across Europe, 100 years ago
William Nicholson – Armistice Night, 1918. And to remember this nearly forgotten generation who changed the map of the globe forever, here is the roll call of “the last” of the lost, courtesy of Al...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018: The Quilt City Slugger
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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From the drawing board of a Budapest banker
So I’ve been fooling with a vintage Frommer Stop this week. You do know of Rudolf Frommer, a bespectacled and balding banker who resembled the fictional Ernst Stavro Blofeld and, among other claims to...
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Steadfast in loyalty
This Bavarian Pickelhaube spiked helmet likely was brought back to the United States as a war souvenir after the Great War. The motto on the helmet “In Treue fest” translates as, “steadfast in...
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100 Years of Turkey Day
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. Here we see a quartet of U.S. Navy chief petty officers in the city of Ponta Delgado, Azores, on Thanksgiving Day, 1918. They seem to have obtained the services of one...
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