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A close up on the Great War-era Maxim suppressor
The U.S. Army in the early 20th Century did some research and field trials on several early silencers for use on the M1903 Springfield. Suppressing a .30-06 is no easy task even today but two companies...
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Shelby Mules, 100 years ago
The below images are from the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum, depicting Doughboys of the newly formed National Army’s 38th “Cyclone” Infantry Division preparing at Camp Shelby outside of Hattiesburg...
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The more things change…
These two images, of U.S. infantrymen some 100 years apart, show just how much the basic job of a foot soldier endures throughout time. You still feel exposed no matter what the cover is. You are still...
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Two horsepower, 100 years on
“Two of the large and better grade of draft horses used for siege artillery held by Captain L. Victor Fromont, commanding the 339 Regiment Field Remount Station. Quartermaster Remount Depot No.7 at...
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A failing monarch and a rising eagle, 101 years ago today
Emperor Karl (Charles) I of Austria-Hungary inspecting troops of the newly formed Polish Auxiliary Corps (Polski Korpus Posiłkowy) in Bukovina, 10 December 1917. The officer on horseback is probably...
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Send it! 1918 version
“U.S. Signal Corps photograph. American 155 mm Artillery Cooperating with the 29th Div. in Position on Road Just Taken from the Germans. Bat[tery] A 324th Artillery, 158[th] Brig[ade] in France.”...
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Warship Wednesday (on a Thursday), Dec. 13, 2018: Franz Ferdinand’s Pacific...
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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Lewis, by way of Savage
Savage Arms during the Great War made Lewis guns for the Canadians (in .303), the Tsar of Russia (in 7.62x54R), and the U.S. Army & Navy (in .30-06), the latter in both M1917 (ground) and M1918...
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The mighty, if hard to see, last hurrah of the Silver State monitor, 101...
Here we see the Arkansas-class monitor USS Tonopah, Monitor #8, in her submarine tender role, sporting a complex geometric “dazzle” camouflage at Boston Navy Yard, 21 December 1917. This image was...
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Frohe Weihnachten!
With the holidays coming up and the loss of my mother who hailed from the Harz Mountains this year, it fell to me to make the standard-issue Pfeffernüsse to the old family recipe just as it fell to her...
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For those Dunsterforce fans out there…
Digging out a Dunsterforce armored car after a river crossing, 1918 (National Army Museum) In 1918, the Brits sent a crackerjack force consisting of a few troopers, some White Russian Cossack allies,...
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Filmed on location on the Western Front
I was able to get into one of the scarce (sold out) showings of “They Shall Not Grow Old” yesterday and just absolutely loved it. Peter Jackson– who it turns out is a big WWI nerd and has access to...
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That Rainbow hike to ‘Valley Forge,’ 101 years ago
( Photos: New York State Military Museum) In these photos from the book “Official Pictures of the World War” National Guard Soldiers of the 42nd Division make their way through the snowy French...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019: Splinter No. 330 (of 448)
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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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019: That time an icebreaker took on a (pocket)...
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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Sold 99 years ago today: One pogy boat, slightly used (license not included)
Here we see the 96-foot long section patrol craft USS Vester (SP-686), photographed circa 1917-1919 during The Great War, probably in a Delaware Bay-area port. According to DANFS, “the ship appears to...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019: The avenger of Toulon
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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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019: The ‘$2 million Fighting Monster’
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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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019: The final Four-Piper
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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The Red Baron Down Under
The below shows the interesting sight of American Wayne Anderson’s replica Fokker Dr.I Dreidecker triplane in Australia for a trans-Australia air race, cuddled among camouflaged Royal Australian Air...
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