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Going all to pieces.
Artillery of the old Napoleanic days consisted of hot shot (to set things on fire), solid shots (to punch holes in things) and grape or canister when served an anti-personnel role at close distance....
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Warship Wednesday January 21, 2015: A Teutonic Heavy in two World Wars
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Archeologists pore over Springfield Armory Historic Site
If you have ever picked up a modern Springfield Armory pistol, you will notice the classic and historic Springfield cannon wheel and artillery piece ordnance crest located on the slide of every one you...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Frank William Brangwyn
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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The lost chest of Lt. Hands
From the BBC “The trunk, which includes a uniform bearing the ribbons for the Military Cross, was found at Highfield School in Letchworth. It is not clear how the chest, the property of Lt Howard...
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Warship Wednesday January 28, 2015 the Tsar’s Panther
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Moses Ezekiel
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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The Black Knight and his Albatross
“Eduard Ritter von Schleich standing by his Albatros D.Va, Serial No. unknown, while serving with Jagdgruppe Nr. 8 in the Spring of 1918. Its fuselage, tail, struts and wheel covers were painted...
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Warship Wednesday Feb 11, 2015: Of Cyclops and Covered Wagons
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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A devil’s wedge
A group of U.S. Marines pose for the camera in 1918 just months before the end of World War One. Note the campaign hats of the sea soldiers in the front rank doffed to the deck. As the legend has it,...
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Warship Wednesday Feb. 18, 2015 Marshal Massena of Gallipoli
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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London Air Raid Spotter posters, 1915 and 2015
Here are a set of posters for those watching the skies for the Kaiser’s war-machines in 1915. And here are a set provided by the BBC for those watching for Tsar Putin’s increasingly active air armada...
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Of Saxons and Germans
The Imperial German Army in 1914 was actually an army of confederated German speaking countries that had formed after 1871. The Prussians, augmented by a number of minor states such as Hamburg and...
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Warship Wednesday March 11, 2015: The Teller of Tales
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Arthur Szyk
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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Weird Danish gun pron
One of the lesser-known small arms makers of 20th Century Western Europe was the Dansk Rekylriffel Syndikat A.S., Copenhagen. This Danish firm produced a number of variants of the guns of one Lt. Jens...
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Hey watch where you drop that thing, buddy
Back during the opening phases of the Great War in 1914, it was thought that flechettes would be the best thing going to drop from aeroplanes and dirigibles on wayward enemy cavalry and foot soldiers...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Howard Chandler Christy
Much as once a week I like to take time off to cover warships (Wednesdays), on Sunday, I like to cover military art and the painters, illustrators, sculptors, and the like that produced them. Combat...
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Warship Wednesday March 25, 2015 the Granite Ship of the Line
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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Warship Wednesday April 1, 2015: Lucky Georgios, the last man standing
Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1859-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a...
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