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Combat Gallery Sunday : The Martial Art of Richard Jack
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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Gallipoli survivor, HMS M33, opens to public today
Yay! HMS M.33 coastal bombardment vessel from Gallipoli campaign. Credit National Museum of the Royal Navy NMRN. Click to big up M33 Wheel with Victory and Mary Rose in view Stern 1848×1230 If you are...
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When President Theodore Rossevelt saw the proposed design for the pigsticker...
Hey, Mack, there is a screwdriver on the end of your Springer there… Roosevelt, a conservationist and big game hunter who settled for being president after stints as New York City police commissioner,...
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The wonderful FN Browning 1900, and its many imitators
John Moses Browning’s first semi-auto handgun was one of the best ever made and, regardless of whether you call it the Browning No.1, the FN Mle. 1900 or the M1900, it has a very interesting (some...
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Warship Wednesday Aug 19, 2015: The first of the bucking ‘165s
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 briefly loved and beautiful zouave uniform
Print shows a French zouave in 1853, wearing uniform and holding rifle, on cigarette card issued by Kinney Tobacco Company as an insert with the Sweet Caporal brand cigarettes. When the French went...
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1914 flashback on propaganda flashbacks
THE GERMAN SCIENCE OF ARSON: INCENDIARY DISKS CARRIED BY THE KAISER’S SOLDIERS—A SPECIMEN BEFORE AND DURING IGNITION. “It is clear that the German incendiary outrages in Belgium and France were...
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Warship Wednesday Sept. 9, 2015: The (bad) luck of the Irish
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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Evolutionary dead-end, the Army’s Moore and Maxim Silencers
Today the U.S. military issues suppressors from SureFire, Gemtech, AAC and others almost routinely as they help with accuracy, flash reduction (very important in combat–especally at night) and, oh...
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RN surveys Jutland
Stunning new 3D scans have emerged from the largest naval battle in history showing the final resting place of a German Flagship. Looking like a small ridge at the bottom of the North Sea these images...
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5 Experimental 1911s you’ve probably never heard of
In the U.S. military’s more than 100-year flirtation with the Colt 1911, quite a few experimental variants were proposed but never adopted. How many of these do you recognize? The Colt 1911 Brastil...
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A look inside a beautiful M91
Here we have a Tula-made Mosin-Nagant M91/30 with a 1900 manufacture date that was reworked in the 1930s. H/T Hickok45
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Missed it by that much
A closer look at two U.S. Ordnance Prototype Pistol designs that competed in the epic 1900s pistol trials that led to the adoption of the Colt M1911. Both are extremely rare guns made in the single...
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Ah, the McLean Muzzle Brake and the hard-serving officer who vetoed it
With the new-fangled Springfield M1903 rifle being issued to replace the mechanically interesting but wanting Krag rifle, late of the Spanish-American War, the U.S. Army was interested in looking at a...
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They also served: The Commonwealth in WWI
While the British Isles suffered greatly in WWI, the Commonwealth nations of the larger Empire have something of an unsung history. Portrait of an Indian cavalryman. Note the SMLE and saber India...
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Combat Gallery Sunday: The Martial Art of Manuel García García
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 Sept. 30, 2015: The Deseret Battlewagon
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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Revisit World War I’s 100th anniversaries day by day
The Great War Day by Day is an illustration blog about the First World War (1914-1918) that delves into the conflict daily with a graphic that takes the reader back in time to today’s date 100 years...
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Forgotten import: The Swiss/Italian Vetterli rifle
In the 1860s, the Swiss government went looking for a rifle that would replace older percussion muskets and elevate them into the revolution in worldwide military arms ushered in with the U.S. Civil...
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Warship Wednesday Oct. 14, 2015: The great return of the hurricane Apache
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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