Want some Mustard with that Shell?
For you CBRN/NBC/CBW fans, courtesy of High Caliber History: Drilling into a Mustard Gas Shell! Filmed in 1918, soldiers in the AEF’s Chemical Warfare Service are taking apart a 155mm German shell...
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Warship Wednesday, March 24, 2021: Nicky’s Dangerous Dolphin
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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95 Years on Post
Here we see an image of the first permanent armed military guard walking his post at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington National Cemetery, 25 March 1926. Via LOC...
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Warship Wednesday, March 31, 2021: NOLA by way of Brazil
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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A look at the ‘Mad Minute’
A typical Tommy of the BEF’s original 1914, “The Old Contemptibles.” Not to be trifled with. While slow, aimed, and deliberate fire was preferred– early SMLEs had magazine cut-off switches to leave...
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The Dogs of War
Happy German Shepherd Day, courtesy of Roxie, my Jeep defense system and loyal hiking companion for the past 12 years. Meet Roxie. Don’t let her fool you, the only thing she would ever bite is a hunk...
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HMS/m D1 Protected
In 1907, the first of what would be eight D-class submarines built for the Royal Navy was laid down at Vickers Armstrong at Barrow. The boat was basically the Dreadnought equivalent for submarines....
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Warship Wednesday, May 19, 2021: One Tired Fox
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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Learning all about the Anti-submarine …guns
Official caption: A blue jacket aboard Pennsylvania telling two feminine visitors all about the mechanism of the anti-submarine guns, December 1918. Photo by Underwood & Underwood via the National...
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Warship Wednesday, June 23, 2021: The St. Thomas Slugger
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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The More Things Change, Maschinengewehr Edition
Check out these two circa 1917 images of Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army (kaiserlich und königliche Armee or k.u.k.) troops fielding a Schwarzlose M.7 water-cooled general-purpose machine gun...
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Warship Wednesday, July 14, 2021: The Edison Bubblehead Connection
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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103 years Ago: I will Hold
Via the National Museum of the Marine Corps: On 19 July 1918, 1st Lt Clifton Cates, who would later become the 19th Commandant of the Marine Corps, sent this legendary message back to his command...
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The Guards Connection
Check out this great image, circa 1901, by Mr. James Russell & Sons of Baker Street, London, fame. The seated gentleman is His Grace, Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of...
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Warship Wednesday, August 11, 2021: The Guacolda-class submarines, via...
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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Happy Labor Day, Almost Inverted Jenny edition
Sept. 1918, via the Ledger Art Service: “Airplane coming down at a difficult angle after a flight over Philadelphia’ Labor Day Parade.” From the looks of it, it seems to be an Army Curtiss JN-4 Jenny...
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103 Years Ago Today (ish?), Pulling the 75s
September 9, 1918: Six-horse artillery caissons of the U.S. 1st Infantry Division, “The Big Red One,” moving up through the woods in Mandres aux Tours (Mandres-aux-Quatre-Tours?), in north-east...
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1917 Government Issue
I recently got a chance to check out this beauty. What we have here is a beautiful Colt Model of 1911 U.S. Army whose serial number, 164462, puts its production squarely in the range of guns made in...
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A Splash of Color in a Sea of Doughboy Brown
American Expeditionary Forces Distinctive Cloth Insignia Chart. (NAID 31491070), Insignia Charts, 1917-1918, RG 120 For reference, on 6 April 1917, when the U.S. declared war against Imperial...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021: Behold, the Destroyerzooka
Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...
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