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(Abbreviated) Warship Weds: Felixstowe edition
Sorry, am on the road in North Alabama at an industry event so we have a shorter than normal WW this week. Will return to full-sized installments next week when I have returned home to my “more...
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The Sleeper Awakens…
I’ve always thought the Hungarian pisztoly FEG 37M Femaru was one of the sleeper Axis WWII-era pistols when it came to deals, and have been fortunate enough to pick them up in recent years for as low...
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A Gentlemanly Guards Sniper
Terry Wieland over at American Rifleman has a great article on a “Gentleman’s Trench Rifle,” specifically, a Royal Grade H&H single-shot, complete with scope, that went to war against The Huns...
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Warship Wednesday, April 20, 2022: A Member of the Easter Egg Fleet
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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Remembering the ANZACs
While today at dawn is the 107th anniversary of the landings of the combined Australian-New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) at Gallipoli in a bid to knock the Ottoman Turks out of the Great War, it is...
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Warship Wednesday, May 25, 2022: I’m Not as Good as I Once Was
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 (Amalgamated) Lancers Paying Homage
Located at Cambrai Barrack in Catterick is The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own) of the British Army, a fairly new regiment, only being formed in 2015. Nonetheless, it was created via an...
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Fear the Mighty Hippocampus!
Official caption: “Hippocampus, U.S. Motor Boat, 1913, photographed prior to World War I with a rowing boat and several model sailing boats in the foreground.” The original print is in National...
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Onto the Ramp
“Onto the Ramp.” Artwork by Joseph Hirsch. Lot 3124-3: Paintings of Naval Aviation during World War II: Abbott Collection. #47. “Caught by the tail like some dripping sea monster, a Navy PBY patrol...
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Marines do Gettysburg to Prep for Guadalcanal
Some 100 Years Ago This Weekend: Across early July 1922, the Marine Corps East Coast Expeditionary Force, based at Quantico, Virginia, headed to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania for maneuvers and field...
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That straight-pull, tho
116 Years Ago: Gun drill at Newport, Rhode Island, July 5, 1906. Photographed by Enrique Mueller. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. PR-3-Box-33-5 Note the white summer jumpers, which were at the...
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Warship Wednesday, July 6, 2022: Dispatches from the New Navy
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 sound of 16 Vickers 303s
One of the scariest sounds for any of the Kaiser’s foot soldiers in the Great War had to be that of the Vickers gun, ready to rattle away in .303 all day. The below amazing eight-minute video is the...
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A Night Raid
“In this charcoal sketch by H.J. Mowat, six Canadians leave the trenches to go on a raid. Given the apparent absence of sandbags, they are possibly exiting from an advanced listening post. Under the...
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1st USS Jacob Jones found
Laid down in Camden, New Jersey in August 1914, the day after the Kaiser’s troops crossed into Belgium, the Tucker-class tin can USS Jacob Jones (Destroyer No. 61) was the first U.S. Navy vessel named...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022: The Final Figurehead
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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Battleship No.35 Sails Again!
Ordered under the administration of William Howard Taft, USS Texas (BB-35) was laid down at Newport News in April 1911, making her hull some 111 years old. After service in both World Wars, the “Old...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022: Continuing the Legacy
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 Torch and the Torpedo Boat
For Liberty’s sake, enlist in the Navy! Recruiting poster showing the Statue of Liberty beaming brightly over the distinctive bow of a circa 1900s torpedo boat. Issued by the City of Boston Committee...
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Guns of the Air Force at 75
While Ben Franklin theorized using airships to deliver troops to battle behind enemy lines as early as 1783 and the Union Army fielded a balloon service in the Civil War, today’s Air Force traces its...
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