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Hellscape
No war is a “clean” war, but in many ways, I think the Great War really earned the nickname at the time of a “War to End All Wars” via sheer up-close brutality. Original Caption, circa 1918: “The way...
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The Associated Press continues to put up archived footage from yesteryear online and some of it is striking. These recently caught my eye. An 11-minute German training video from 1940 showing V1 and...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 11, 2024: Cathedral Slugger
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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Spahis & Stuarts
80 years ago this month. December 10-27, 1944 – Alsace. General de Lattre de Tassigny, at the head of the 1st (Free French) Army, and General Béthouart, commanding its 1st Army Corps, inspect the...
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Man Bites Mule
80 years ago this week. 23 October 1944. Ramgarh, India, CBI theater. “Man Bites Mule. Although it’s only a slight variation on the popular prescription for ‘news,’ it isn’t news when man bites mule,...
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Chilean Downtime
110 years ago this week, 3 November 1914. Admiral Maximilian von Spee’s victorious German East Asia Squadron (Ostasiengeschwader) basking at anchor in Valparaiso, Chile just a few days after the...
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Warship Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024: The Ones That Got Away
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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Hellscape
No war is a “clean” war, but in many ways, I think the Great War really earned the nickname at the time of a “War to End All Wars” via sheer up-close brutality. Original Caption, circa 1918: “The way...
View ArticleGive it up to the AP…
The Associated Press continues to put up archived footage from yesteryear online and some of it is striking. These recently caught my eye. An 11-minute German training video from 1940 showing V1 and...
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Warship Wednesday Dec. 11, 2024: Cathedral Slugger
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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Spahis & Stuarts
80 years ago this month. December 10-27, 1944 – Alsace. General de Lattre de Tassigny, at the head of the 1st (Free French) Army, and General Béthouart, commanding its 1st Army Corps, inspect the...
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Strangers in a Strange Land
Some 110 years ago this month, a surreal scene: The 19th Lancers (Fane’s Horse) of the Indian Cavalry Corps, on the march in the snow, Northern France, February 1915. The unit traced its lineage to...
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Warship Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025: Scary Freddy
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, Feb. 26, 2025: Walking the Beat
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 Texas has new permanent-ish home, afloat at Galveston
Three years after being uprooted from her long-time shallow berth under the San Jacinto Monument– where she rested for nearly 75 years– USS Texas (Battleship No. 35), the country’s only Great War-era...
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Warship Wednesday, March 12, 2025: Spymaster Farm
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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Achilles and the Leopard
“Destruction of the German Raider Leopard by HMS Achilles and the HMS Dundee,” by maritime artist William Lionel Wyllie. IWM collection Art.IWM ART 15814 The piece portrays the “Action of March 17,...
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Irish Tommies in British Army finally get the local nod
“For the Queen and old Ireland”, circa 1900 by Frank T Copnall, depicts the Irish soldier. NAM. 1973-12-55-1 A new museum is to be established to tell the story of Irish soldiers in the British Army...
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Warship Wednesday, March 19, 2025: Bucoup Malchanceuse
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, March 26, 2025: First of 65
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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