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Warship Wednesday: Oct. 2, 2019, HMs Unlucky Killer No. 13
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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Warship Wednesday, Oct 9, 2019: Queen City Admiral Maker
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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“Black Army” 1911 Making a Return?
“Kamerad” by Frank Schoonover for Ladies Home Journal, 1919, showing some Doughboys making friends with German headquarters staff, with some very dark-hued 1911s at hand. The so-called “Black Army” is...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct 16, 2019: The Everlasting VDG
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Devils along the Rhine
A fairly salty looking Marine Sergent in dress blues, ca. 1917, via the USMC archives. Note his fedora at the ready and early pattern webbing. The combat exploits of the U.S. Marine Corps in France in...
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Souvenir of the Big Advance at Cambrai
Turned over in a police firearms surrender, a trophy Luger from a historic Great War battle on the Western Front is now in a museum. The pistol, a 1911-marked DWM, was collected by the Wiltshire Police...
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Feldgrau is so hot right now for Fall fashion
This month Hermann Historica has a special auction, Die kaiserliche Armee in Feldgrau (The Imperial Army in Field Grey) which includes the famed Lacey Collection of more than 100 often rare uniforms of...
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Remember, today is not about saving upto 20% on select merchandise
Division Cemetery, Okinawa, 1945, Photo via Marine Corps Archives In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words To us in...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019: A Dazzling Flivver
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale...
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Vale, Robert K. Massie
As a fan of both Russian and naval history, to say that I grew up reading the works of Robert K. Massie is an understatement. The noted scholar, a man who interviewed Alexander Kerensky while he was...
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Joyeux Noël, guys
“French soldiers chatting around a fire lit inside a damaged church near Saint-Mihiel, France, near Christmas, 1916.”
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As I am this weekend, perhaps these behind-the-scenes “making of” 1917 shorts from the Imperial War Museum, who had a supporting role in the film’s production, may be of interest. I’ll post my own...
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So I saw 1917
Over the weekend I watched 1917, the Great War Western-front epic by British filmmaker Sam Mendes. Not to spoil too much of the plot, the broad-strokes (which you can get from the preview) is that two...
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Dr. Watson, bring your revolver(s)
So I saw this interesting listing pop up from Milestone Auctions, centered on a cased pair of beautiful (although non-sequential) Colt Model 1878 double action cartridge revolvers. As you may well...
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Machine guns and torpedo tubes, the more things change…
Here we see a warrant officer in dress whites aboard USS Walke (Destroyer # 34) leaning jauntily on a stanchion-mounted machine gun, circa 1914. This weapon is a .30 caliber U.S. Model 1909 Machine...
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SMS Emden survivors, from beyond the grave
The Australian War Memorial this week posted this excellent round table studio interview filmed in Ausburg, Germany in the 1950s with three direct survivors and son of a serving officer of the German...
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Warship Wednesday Feb. 5, 2020: Witness to the Sunrise
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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Great War Gatling guns?
Although Dr. Richard Gatling’s early hand-cranked “battery guns” had been introduced as far back as 1862, for the first 15 years of their existence they were bulky and used a series of unshielded...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020: That time one of the Kaiser’s U-Boats Went...
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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That’s one big, goofy revolver
So recently I have been researching one downright weird friggen wheel gun. Boom Traits: *9-pounds. *20-shot cylinder with a loading gate. *11mm/.45cal (ish) chamber. *10-inch barrel. *No sights. *No...
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