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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020: Franz Josef’s Sharpshooter
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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William Allen Phillips and His Interesting (and early) .45 Gas Pistol
With the blessing of the Army, in 1908 a Texas-born ordnance officer began to design a .45-caliber gas-operated pistol to compete against John Browning’s M1911. Two years and $700 later, an...
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Happy 151st, Herr Lerch, err, Lerch-San
In Japan today is a 100~ strong Alpine-style skiing club named Lerch no Kai, or the Society of Lerch in honor of one Theodor Edler von Lerch, late a general officer in the Imperial and Royal Army of...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020: From the Kattegat to Rabaul
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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Der Langenhan FL-Selbstlader? Ja!
The firm of Fredrich Langenhan’s Gewehr-und Fahrradfabrik, the FL-Selbstlader was never a household name but that doesn’t mean it isn’t an interesting and collectible design. Langenhan, located in...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020: The Kaiser’s Gorgon
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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Attention Gun lovers
For those who love beautiful and rare firearms, RIAC has some amazing offerings on their upcoming December Premier Auction. They include a no serial number Singer Manufacturing Company M1911A1. The...
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The Saga of Russian Broomhandles
Just $25 fully outfitted! Deal! Designed by the Feederle brothers in conjunction with Paul Mauser, over a million DWM Construktion 96 autoloading pistols– in addition to their M712 Schnellfeuer...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020: Ely’s Shotgun
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, Nov. 25, 2020: Scandinavian Shellbacks
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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108 years ago today: 356 millimeters of BOOM
Here we see an early Watervliet-made 14-inch (356mm)/34 caliber M1907 “disappearing” seacoast gun of the U.S. Army Coastal Artillery at Fort Hancock’s Sandy Hook Proving Ground on the New Jersey coast,...
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Well Convoyed
Dec. 1918, Offical caption on this Underwood & Underwood news photo shows what is likely a Northern Mine Barrage veteran: “Well Convoyed” This bluejacket just back after six months service in the...
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Somebody lose a sub? Or twice sunk, twice found!
Word from Maryland is that a dive team from Atlantic Wreck Salvage spotted something interesting on their side-scan sonar off the coast of Ocean City. On further research, it appears they have located...
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The Tank Museum’s Archive and Supporting Collections Manager, Stuart Wheeler, holds class for about 15 minutes on the first anti-tank weapons seen on the Western Front, with emphasis on the Tankgewehr...
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Magnolia Christmas in the Big Apple
New Yorkers gazing at the brand new New Mexico-class dreadnought USS Mississippi (Battleship No. 41) as she lies at anchor in the Hudson River for the Great War victory fleet review, Christmas Eve,...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan.20, 2021: Bruised Georgie
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 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, Feb. 3, 2021: The Teutonic Flag Collector
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 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, Feb. 10, 2021: Savior of the Sea of Marmora
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
View ArticleThe Mask Breaker
As a kid, I remember fishing with my grandpa in the Mississippi Sound and the Gulf of Mexico and, as one does as a curious bespectacled boy with a thumb-eared copy of an Edward Beach paperback book in...
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Warship Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Philly L boats: The Retractables
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their...
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