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Two Great War U-boats Found, Still on Eternal Patrol
A group of wreck hunters, working off the Belgian coast, have discovered a pair of German U-boats that have been lost since World War I. The wrecks include the Kriegsmarine’s German Type U 5 submarine...
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Echos from the ‘War in Snow and Ice’
During the Great War, one of the most often forgotten major battlefields were those high in the Alps and Dolomites between Austro-Hungarian Tyrolean Kaiserjäger backed up by mobilized Standschützen...
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Rolf’s Curious Shark
Here we see the bow of the rare Type UE II ocean minelayer submarine, SM U-124, sometime in late 1918 after her surrender, likely in Harwich, England. Just below her net cutter is a shell hole (“sheel...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023: The Duel of the Deputado and the Knight
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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Portugal’s sub force getting it done
The modern Tridente-class submarine, a unique fuel cell AIP variant of the German Type 209PN/Type 214PN, has been in operation since 2010 with the Portuguese Navy. While three were envisioned, just...
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Last Full Measure: Wilfred Owen
Some 105 years ago today, poet and soldier LT Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC, 5th Bn. Manch. Rgt, was killed, on 4 November 1918, aged just 25. Owen died just a week before the signing of the...
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Lions from Ohio
Some 105 years ago today, the doughboys of the U.S. 332d Infantry Regiment wrapped up the Vittorio-Veneto Operation as part of the Italian 31st Division under the command of the British XIV Corps and...
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Army Reset, 1903 edition
Some 120 years ago, the U.S. Army’s experience fighting in Cuba and Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War, followed by overseas campaigning in the Western Pacific to pacify the Philippines, led the...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023: Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
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. 29, 2023: As Easy as 123
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, Dec. 13, 2023: An Everlasting Pansarbat
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 (on a Thursday) Jan. 11, 2024: Like a Bad Penny
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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CMP Has Enfields!
Watch on the Rhine: sentry of the 310th Signal Bn, Moselle, Germany, armed with an M1917 “American Enfield ” with others stacked nearby for the rest of the guard force. (Signal Corps Photo...
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Propping up the popgun
How about this great image of a U.S. Coast Guardsman in winter blues on an unidentified cutter alongside a stern 6-pounder 57mm deck gun circa 1916-1920s. Note the Portland Shipbuilding Company Spar...
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Those wacky Army sea mines
The beautiful and brand new 188-foot 1,300-ton U.S. Army Mine Planter No. 16, Col. George W. Ricker, at New Orleans’s Pauline Street Wharf, 14 May 1943. She arrived at the New Orleans Port of...
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Win or die
How about this amazing early color photo (possibly an Autochrome Lumière) showing the combat-tattered banner of the French army’s 37e Régiment D’Infanterie (37e RI) shown resting on two stacks of...
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Bell of only American Tin Can Lost in Great War Recovered
The Tucker-class destroyer USS Jacob Jones (DD-61) was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey, on 3 August 1914– the same day the Kaiser’s Germany declared war on...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024: One Unlucky Beauty
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 NYC COTP Days
Check out this great image of what looks like circa 1910s U.S. Marines in landing party marching order including packs, leggings, web gear, and M1903 Springfields complete with long M1905 bayonets....
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The Lost Battleship of the Atlantic
80 years ago this month: Here we see the Great War-vintage Brazilian dreadnought São Paulo in Recife, in March 1944, with the old battlewagon at this point in her career reduced to a role as a harbor...
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