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Green Mountain returns to the Naval List after 100-year hiatus
Below we see USS Vermont, (Battleship # 20), giving her impression of a submarine while underway in heavy seas, circa 1907-1909, possibly during the famous cruise round-the-world sortie of the Great...
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Warship Wednesday, April 22, 2020: Freeboard is Overrated, anyway
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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ANZAC Cove at 105
The landing at ANZAC, Apr 25, 1915, Charles Dixon, New Zealand National Archives AAAC 898 NCWA Q388 On 25 April 1915, the Gallipoli landings to open up the Dardanelles and force the Ottoman Empire out...
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Warship Wednesday, April 29, 2020: Faithful Battlewagon of the Three Crowns
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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Mighty Mo and O’Ryan’s Roughnecks: Hail, Hail, the Gang’s all here
The original caption of this Underwood and Underwood news service photo received 3 May 1919: U.S.S. Missouri steaming into her berth at Hoboken with last of 27th Division, namely the 106th Machine Gun...
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Battleship No. 36’s final resting place, visited 15,000 feet down
USS Nevada (BB-36) survived the hell of Pearl Harbor and was famously the only battleship able to get underway that day. Repaired and returned to service, she earned seven battlestars from France to...
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The more things change, USS Farragut edition
Below we have the second U.S. Navy warship named after Adm. David Farragut, the 1,400-ton Clemson-class destroyer, USS Farragut (DD-300), shown rolling in heavy seas, during the 1920s. Courtesy of...
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The Tiger’s Everyday Carry Pocket Gun
Here we see a .32 ACP Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless self-loading pistol carried by General (later Field Marshal) Sir Gerald Templer, KG, GCB, CB, GCMG, KBE, DSO. The S/N (377681) dates to 1921...
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The Literal Watch on the Rhine
“THE WATCH ON THE RHINE” Occupation Duty, 1919. Signal Corps Photo 111-SC-45142 via the National Archives Official caption: Sentry posed upon a rock at the river’s edge resting on his rifle and looking...
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A Century at La Citadelle
The Canadian Army’s Royal 22e Régiment, the Van Doos, dates back to 1869 and today they are the only French-speaking Regiment of the Regular Force. Make no mistake about blue flannel-wearing “Jon Paul”...
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Redlegs on Gypse Hill
19 November 1917: “Camouflaged French 75’s being used by the American 6th Field Artillery, 1st Division. Gypse Hill, near Einville, Meurthe et Moselle, France.” Photo by Capt. PD Miller, Signal Corps....
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Warship Wednesday, June 10, 2020: Yes, but these go to 17 inches
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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Warship Wednesday, June 17, 2020: Mohican Motorboat
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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Rifle Shooting a lost art…in 1913
Sailors and Marines from the ship’s crew at the rifle range, Auckland, New Zealand, circa 1904-1906. Copied from the USS Baltimore album, page 47. NH 101377 A full-page feature in the May 18, 1913...
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Happy first day of Summer: King Armored Cars in the Caribbean
While the Marines are quickly shedding most of their heavy armor, it should be pointed out that they intend to still keep some lighter stuff like Amtracs and LAVs, at least for now. With that, and with...
View ArticleCome get that Army History Magazine
The Army History Magazine Summer 2020 edition (No.116) is available for free download and the 60-page journal includes a great article on Merrill’s Marauders in Burma as well as the U.S. and Allied...
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Warship Wednesday, July 8, 2020: Service Guarantees Citizenship
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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Warship Wednesday, July 15, 2020: 3 Names, 5 Flags, 6 Wars
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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The Emperor’s Chambermaids: Happy 305th
Hayes, Michael Angelo, “The 14th. (or The King’s) Light Dragoons. Heavy marching order” (1840). Prints, Drawings, and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository....
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Happy Watermelon Day
August 3rd is National Watermelon Day, which recognizes the refreshing summertime treat enjoyed at picnics and fairs. With that, enjoy this image of the ersatz Great War-era patrol boat USS Uncas...
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