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The National Matches Not Remembered
The U.S. Army today is, by most accounts not written in Chinese or Russian, the most modern and advanced in the world. However, that was not always the case. Back in the 1890s, the 26,000-man force...
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105 Years Ago: Going Loud, a Grave Responsibility
Via the West Point Museum On the morning of 23 October 1917, the first American shell of World War One in Europe, was fired toward German lines by a First Division artillery unit. On Oct. 22, 1917,...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022: Limping into Exile
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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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022: The Loss of Trap Ship K
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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Der General Rates a Umbrella on the Range
Official caption: “Übungsschießen mit einem Scharfschützengewehr am Schießplatz in Ferlach, 03.11.1915” (Practice shooting with a sniper rifle at the shooting range in Ferlach), showing an evidently...
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Tesla’s Fever Dream: Killer Kayaks
From the spark that was Nikolai Tesla wowing the crowds of New York’s Madison Square Garden with his four-foot long, steel-hulled, radio-controlled boat (patented in 1898) and his follow-on “dirigible...
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Mines: Still a Thing Even as USN’s MCM Force Fades
Deployed to the Baltic, Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG1) just found a cluster of old Russian M/12 moored pendulum contact mines laid in 1917 along Parnu Bay on the Estonian coast....
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022: Black Sea David and Goliath
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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Kilts & Pipes
These two images of Scottish regiments on deployment, some 105 years apart, seemed very appropriate in a “the more things change” kinda way. Circa Christmas 1917 card, depicting kilt-clad Highlanders...
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Warship Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022: A Multinational Effort
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 longest-serving GPMG
Spotted in Ukraine near Chernihiv on Christmas Day: the ever-lasting Pulemyot Maxima PM1910. Note the timber has been cut out to accommodate the carriage and the 250-round belt at the ready in the can...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023: Diving the New World
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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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023: The Grounded Shrine
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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Scraping horses
Found this interesting for anyone curious about U.S. Army Great War-era veterinary and farrier services for transport, cavalry, and artillery horses. 22 January 1919, U.S. Army of Occupation in...
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Warship Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023: The Kaiser’s Tin Cans do Broadway
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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Scouting Force
Some of the heaviest of heavy sluggers in the Pacific War were the Pensacola and Northampton classes of heavy “treaty cruisers.” Below is a rare snap of seven of these vessels all in one place at one...
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Flip Trihey and The Irish Rangers (of Montreal)
On 2 February 1916, General Order 69 authorized the 55th Regiment “Duchess of Connaught’s Own” Irish Rangers with recruiting starting in mid-March, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. In fact, to help...
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A Smoke and a Read
105 years ago. February 1918. Offical caption: A Canadian soldier enjoys a few minutes with the Canadian Daily Record (Un soldat canadien prenant une pause, s’apprêtant à feuilleter le Canadian Daily...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023: The Electric Angel
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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The Old Salt
An “Old Salt” and a young sailor stroll past a recruiting poster in 1920. It highlights what their boss, Secretary of the Navy Josephus “Cup O Joe” Daniels, wanted to highlight to attract the best and...
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