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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019: That time the Japanese (briefly) won a...
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S&W’s M1917: Packing up to head to Uncle’s house
The Smith & Wesson Model of 1917 was a beauty. Popular and easy to use, they equipped military police, officers and the like as the U.S. Army girded for the Great War. The six-shot M1917 used “half...
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Keep off Gov boats!
The sad fate of the majority of the U.S. Navy’s Great War splinter fleet. Here we see a trio of disarmed 110-foot subchasers to include USS SC-216 and USS SC-225 in Boston harbor’s Dorchester Bay boat...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019: Nimitz’s first Ranger, or, the wandering...
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Young battlewagons at play
Here we see, on the cusp of the Great War, a most excellent color-tinted postcard published by the Valentine Souvenir Co., New York from a photograph by Enrique Muller, showing brand-new early...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019: Manuel’s least favorite cruiser
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Remembering the Tampa
Signal boost here, from the USCG: R 261000 FEB 19 FM COMDT COGARD WASHINGTON DC//CG-092// TO ALCOAST UNCLAS //N05700// ALCOAST 062/19 COMDTNOTE 5700 SUBJ: USS TAMPA PURPLE HEART MEDAL CAMPAIGN 1. The...
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That time the Navy needed binos so bad it asked for loaners
To say that the U.S. entered the Great War in 1917 unprepared was an understatement. With a standing Army that was smaller than almost any European combatant with the possible exception of Portugal...
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Warship Wednesday, Mar. 6, 2019: The good doctor’s fine ‘Frida
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That mechanism, tho
Mechanism of the magazine – Lee-Enfield rifle (SMLE), 1907 Gallaher’s Cigarette card. Via NYPL The .303 Enfield, of course, was fielded by Britain and her Commonwealth allies throughout both World...
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Still coming home
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission earlier this month held a ceremony at Messines Ridge British Cemetery for two unknown soldiers whose remains were recently recovered near the town of Wijtschate,...
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Banana Boat Tin Cans
No, not these: These: The banana boat SS Matagalpa, ex-USS Osborne (DD-295), docked in New York near the Brooklyn Bridge (U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive) “Shortly after the cessation of hostilities...
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Keeping the lamp lit
While the U.S. Navy’s naming convention has shifted wildly over the years– for instance in the 1840s frigates were named for states but by the 1890s those names were used for armored cruisers,...
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Happy Birthday San Marco!
Although today’s Italian marines trace their unofficial lineage back to the 16th century Fanti da Mar of the old Republic of Venice, the modern unit that houses them has a history somewhat newer....
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Warship Wednesday, April 10, 2018: All Forms of Manly Sports
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Vindictive Lamp, 101 years ago today
We have covered the HMS Vindictive, a British Arrogant-class cruiser, in a past Warship Wednesday (Big Vincent and the Seagoing Pyro Party). Some 101-years ago, the obsolete vessel gave her all as the...
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Flowerdew’s Charge
On 30 March 1918, during the Battle of Moreuil Wood which helped blunt Ludendorff’s massive Operation Michael spring offensive, the Canadian Cavalry Brigade– which had long been held in strategic...
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Warship Wednesday, May 8, 2019: Vladivostok’s Red Pennant
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Remembering Hartlepool
On 16 December 1914, German RADM Franz von Hipper led his squadron consisting of the battlecruisers SMS Seydlitz, Von der Tann, Moltke and Derfflinger, the armored cruiser SMS Blücher, light cruisers...
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Warship Wednesday, May 29, 2019: About that new Marker in Times Square
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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