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The last Amerikansky Golland
A century ago today, the last American submarine operated by the Russians was put into service. The 78 assorted Type H (Holland 602) submarines made by Electric Boat in Connecticut, Fore River in...
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Just 95 Pfennigs per Week– and all the Bombs you can Catch!
This great image shows a Kratzchen-wearing German Lanser in a set of exceptionally well-prepared trenches during the Great War, triumphantly holding some sort of unexploded ordnance as the rest of his...
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Tradecraft
These images, via the National Archives’s Underwood and Underwood News Service collection, show the “brass tube bomb,” “magazine revolver of German make,” and assorted maps, disguises, and other...
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Great War Echos along the Copacabana
When the U.S. entered what was then termed the Great War and is now better known as World War I, the country’s Army went from an oversized border defense force to one capable of taking on the Kaiser....
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Warship Wednesday, March 29, 2023: The Republic’s Lightning
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, April 5, 2023: Jackie’s Toys
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The day the Kaiser Sank the Entire Liberian Fleet
Some 105 years ago today, a German submarine, SM U-154, under the command of Kplt. Hermann Gercke, appeared off the Liberian capital of Monrovia and bombarded the city then sank the West African...
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Warship Wednesday, April 19, 2023: Norway’s Fair-haired Bruiser
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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Interested in a Curious Film-Used Mauser?
From time to time, large movie and TV productions leave a mark on firearms history and the market for such items. For instance, trailer loads of resin (heavy dense rubber or plastic) M1...
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Warship Wednesday, May 3, 2023: Where Dewey and Halsey Intersect
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, May 17, 2023: Hugo’s Everlasting Clouds
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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How a Trench Knife in a French Cemetery Led to Honoring a Fallen Great War GI
The Disson M1917 and later M1918 trench knives, or “knuckle dusters” were a uniquely American item in the Great War In February 2018, a French undertaker working in a cemetery in Villers-sur-Fere, a...
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Warship Wednesday, June 28, 2023: The Tsar’s Jutland Veteran
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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Army Officially out of the Chemical Weapons Biz After 106 years
The U.S. Army’s final Sarin (GB) nerve agent-filled M55 chemical rocket was destroyed on July 7 at the Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky. It was the last crumb of the more than 30,000 tons of chemical...
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First of Ford’s Subusters Hits the Water
Here we see, 105 years ago today, “Patrol Eagle (PE) Boat #1” ready to be Launched at the Ford River Rouge Plant, on the outskirts of Detroit, 11 July 1918. The vessel is seen sliding bow-first from...
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Warship Wednesday, July 12, 2023: Mr. Gallatin’s Shallow Water Angel
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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Great War British Sub and German Torpedo Boat found side by side…in parking lot
Kaiser Willy’s Schichau-Werke-built V1-class torpedo boat SMS S24 had a very active career that included firing her steel fish (unsuccessfully) at the British destroyers HMS Garland and HMS Unity at...
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Warship Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023: Copenhagen’s Finest
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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Two Destroyers Lost in 1916 Found
These haunting images of two Royal Navy warships – the Parker-class flotilla leader HMS Hoste and the M-class destroyer HMS Negro – have just been released. The wreck of HMS Hoste The wrecks have been...
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Introducing Captain Patton
This notable oath, via the 1,572-page Official Military Personnel File for George S. Patton Jr., digitized in the National Archives, was signed some years 106 ago today. When his promotion was...
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