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Some Great War helmets may not have been that bad
From ScienceTechDaily: Biomedical engineers from Duke University have demonstrated that, despite significant advancements in protection from ballistics and blunt impacts, modern military helmets are no...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020: The Everlasting Albrecht Marsch
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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Perishable skills, or the Navy is actually running Atlantic Convoy Ex again
The best tactic to beat the vile threat of U-boats in the Great War was the convoy, be it coastal, trans-oceanic, or whatever. July 1917: A photograph taken from the ersatz gunboat USS Rambler (SP-211)...
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After a two year effort by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and his assistant, a young New Yorker named Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Navy Reserves were officially established 3 March 1915, as the...
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Rare Hartlepool Bombardment aftermath footage surfaces
On the early morning of 16 December 1914, the heavy cruiser Blucher, along with the battlecruisers Seydlitz and Moltke of Kaiser Wilhem’s High Seas Fleet closed offshore of the English seaside towns of...
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A forgotten Great War tale
With today being International Women’s Day, there is no better time to point out a forgotten story in the U.S. Navy’s Great War experience, one that would echo across future conflicts. While the role...
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Warship Wednesday, March 11, 2020: Flory’s Battle-scarred Bugle
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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Happy Pi-Day
In my own naval-heavy military history salute to Pi-Day (3/14), we take a look at the peculiar exhibition that was U.S. Navy pie eating contests. Apparently, these were a regular occurrence at “steel...
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What was in the rucks and saddlebags while chasing Villa
Steve1989, who runs a crazy MRE/ration testing channel on YouTube, laid hands on a Dec. 1906-born-on U.S. Army Emergency Ration. About the size of a large can of soup, it weighs 20-ounces and consists...
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Only the Greybeards Left
100 years ago in Ukraine, after four years of the Great War and two of Civil War: LC-DIG-anrc-05467 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/anrc.05467a Official caption: Only the Greybeards Left. When the principal...
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The Guardian of the Mouth of the Mississippi
Here we see the mighty 55-foot powerboat-turned-patrol craft, USS Wendy (SP-448), underway during the Great War, likely around the Mississippi Sound to Venice, Louisiana area. The original print is in...
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Bringing a rifle to a sword fight
Matt Easton with Scholagladiatoria covers military bayonet/rifle fencing equipment that was common from about the 1850s through the 1930s, with, naturally, an emphasis on British kit. You had to be a...
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Happy 120th to “The Micks”
Smart Irishmen Wanted for HM Irish Regiment of Foot Guards Coloured chromolithograph recruiting poster after Black. Published by HM’s Stationery Office, 1927. The Irish Guards regiment of the Britsh...
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Warship Wednesday, April 1, 2020: From Red Rover to Comfort
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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Sacramento’s Own
From the California Military Museum archives: An unidentified infantry sergeant of Sacramento’s Company E (former Yuba Light Infantry) 2nd California Infantry Regiment (now the 1st Battalion, 184th...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: April 5, 2020, Keith Henderson
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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Recasting history, Tirpitz edition
The Tirpitzhafen naval base in Kiel, along with the Tirpitzmole was the home port and docks for units of the Imperial German Kaiserliche Marine, the Reichsmarine during the Weimar Republic, the...
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Navy getting back into the LST business…?
When it came to amphibious warfare across a 60-year-run from 1942, when USS LST-1 was completed, through 2002 when USS Frederick (LST-1184) was decommissioned, the beachable tank landing ship was a key...
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Gentleman Wormwood
Here we see a bespoke U.S. Army cavalry officer, leaning on his French-style soldier’s cane, somewhere in Europe during the Great War. He is sporting the latest in chemical warfare fashion to include a...
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Warship Wednesday, April 15, 2020: The Winged Spinach Can
Here at LSOZI, we 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 tale all their...
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