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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Alphonse Mucha
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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Retreat Hell
I try not to bombard you guys with too many videos but I saw this doc on the 2nd Platoon, Golf 2/5 (5th Marine Regiment) in Afghanistan and thought I would share. The hard charging Devils of the 2/5...
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Doughboy tactical lights of a century ago
In the World War One era, the U.S. Army did a number of low key experiments in attaching lights to small arms for various purposes. Here are two rather steampunk examples that I stumbled across in the...
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Before the G36…
In a direct rebuttal to the current state of German Army battle rifles, lets take a look at the downright primitive stuff they had a hundred years ago… Bavarian troops pose in a trench, 1915. Note the...
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Warship Wednesday April 29, 2015: The Red Taxi of the Black Sea
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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Feel like running a 43K with a rifle on your back? The Swiss call it Waffenlauf
The tiny central European country of Switzerland was renowned for centuries for the quality of their fighting men and was one of the few countries on that continent that was never attacked in either of...
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76 Years ago today
Click to big up. Note the Empire State Building in the skylne Battleships of the New York-class, USS New York and USS Texas, in New York City during the New York World’s Fair, 3 May 1939. The two...
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Warship Wednesday May 6, 2015: The unsinkable battleship of Manila Bay
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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The “other” Mauser handguns: the Model 1910 and 1914 pocket pistols
The Mauser brothers and their company, the famous Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken A.G. (DWM) concern, was perhaps the world’s premier bolt-action rifle makers for decades and armed the military...
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The Greatest Generation
William R. Wilson (right) and brother Cpl. Jack Wilson (left) standing by a German 88 mm gun at Verdun, France on VE Day] via LOC Update: above caption was from the LOC, as sharp-eyed Roger noted, its...
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The rock and roll Marlin: The M1918 BAR
Today each Army and Marine fire team contains at least one hard charger who is designated the squad automatic weapon man. This position, first conceived back in 1918, was until the disco era composed...
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Fearless Navarre
Paris, 6 août 1914. Soldats du 5e régiment d’infanterie (“Navarre sans Peur”), Il fait partie de la 12e brigade d’infanterie, 6e division d’infanterie, 3e corps d’armée juste avant le départ pour le...
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Warship Wednesday May 27, 2015 The coldest boat in the Russian Navy
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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Looking for your 1916 Mad Max Ride?
The below sold for $72,000 at auction last weekend in the UK. Which is actually a bargain as it is one of the last surviving WWI-era British Matchless motorcycles complete with a Vickers machine gun...
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Happy Independence Day, 1918 flashback
Via LOC You have to love the Springfield 1903. Be careful this weekend. Lots of under-supervised barbeques and illegal fireworks. Not that I’m complaining or anything, just saying. Boom!
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“Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of war”
While, yes, it may be a phrase from Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and was likely written sometime around 1599, both Caesar’s army and those of Shakespeare’s own time,...
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Warship Wednesday July 15, 2015: The Great War’s Granite State
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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Of British officers and top break revolvers
The Webley and Enfield series of top-break .455 and .38/200 wheelguns were the standard issue British officer’s kit from the 1880s through the early 1960s when they were finally replaced by the...
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Swedes stumble on a wrecked mini-sub in their waters
You may remember a few months back when the Swedish coastal artillery and naval forces went ape shit on a possible non-NATO (read= Russki) midget sub in their territorial waters– and reportedly dropped...
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The Zeppelin pipe
Dig the watch (altimeter?) on his cuff. And you know that nose piece has to suck after about 3 seconds A pilot in the Imperial German Air Service, wearing leather attire and the classic cork and...
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